At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye over the festive season. Browse and enjoy!

• Hey, at last, here’s a South African review of Edward Snowdon‘s Permanent Record. Nice.
• You also gotta read this review by Mark Gevisser on Marguerite Poland‘s new novel, A Sin of Ommission.
• Did you see The Johannesburg Review of Books‘ top 10 articles of 2019?
• There’s an ongoing bunfight among romance writers in the U S of A. It’s summarised well here; and the latest is here.
• Welp, they went and opened TS Eliot‘s letters to Emily Hale. And, turns out TS Eliot had something to say about that. Dueling archives!
• Here’s a 2020 literary calendar that’s exhaustingly exhaustive.
• Hey look, it’s a new short story by Ivan Vladislavic.

Finally, someone has used the term ‘Uncanny valley’ as the title of their memoir about working for San Francisco startups.

• Find our previous Footnotes here.

Categories Africa Fiction International Non-fiction

Tags 2019 2020 A Sin of Omission Edward Snowden Emily Hale Footnotes Johannesburg Review of Books Literary Calendar Marguerite Mark Gevisser Romance Writers of America Top 10 Articles TS Eliot Uncanny Valley