Footnotes, May 2022: Book links from around the web

At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye.

What do you do with books you don’t want any more? Try this one easy trick.
How to deal with the sense of loss you get when you finish a good book.
The week-long Durban International Book Fair will take place in August.
Read an excerpt from Niq Mhlongo’s new short story collection For You, I’d Steal a Goat.
Good news! The Bookseller’s latest edition is free to read – with a focus is on Black publishing.
Bono is to release 40-chapter memoir about ‘the people, places and possibilities’ of his life. (Haven’t we suffered enough?)
A Genius on the Wrong Side of History: a review of two new biographies of Leo Tolstoy.
That lovely Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library will give a book a month to 200 refugee children until they turn five.
Shakespeare’s plays are full of people dying, both off- and onstage. Here’s a fascinating essay on how he killed – and healed – his characters.
In Extremely Awkward But Predictable news, LitHub published an essay about plagiarism, by an author who plagiarised her first novel, which turned out – you guessed it – to be plagiarised.
From the archives: The Man Who Wrote Too Much – an essay on Robert Musil’s 1,800-page novel The Man Without Qualities.
‘Some things ought to stay dead.’ Revisiting the Sweet Valley High series.
A company will pay $200 for every novel you finish. (For once the weak Rand may work in your favour …)
Dig out your childhood book projects! A woman in the US has got a book she wrote as a 5-year-old published.
Fan of book series but don’t want to commit? Here are five book series made up of standalone novels!
A fraudster has been impersonating a HarperCollins editorial director and sending out phishing emails offering book contracts.
Call for writers! You are invited to apply for Fic Sci, a three-day writing intensive workshop in response to a presentation from a leading scientist. For more information click here.