Some things that caught our attention this week.

• The National Book Critic Circle Awards were announced last night. Winners included Paul Betty’s The Sellout for Fiction; Same Quinones’ Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic for General Nonfiction; Margo Jefferson’s Negroland for Autobiography; Charlotte Gordon’s Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley for Biography; Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts for Criticism; and Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude for Poetry.

• Keep writing or die… with The Most Dangerous Writing App. If you use this app to write and stop for more than five minutes, it will delete all your work. So, no pressure.