The latest TUGboat (v.34 n.1, http://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents34-1.html) contains an item I'm especially proud of: the first fiction we've ever published, a one-page short story by Daniel Quinn, titled Colophon. It's just a fun story (in the members area of the web site, at least for now), but I hope it will encourage people to read Daniel's other (much better known) work, such as Ishmael, Story of B, and Beyond Civilization. His main web site is http://ishmael.org. (TeXxies: it was also the first time it seemed appropriate to use cmfib in running text. :) Thanks to Daniel for giving us permission to reprint it from his collection, At Woomeroo.

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TUGboat 32:2 has been mailed and is now available online.

I believe the backlog of package updates from the time of the TeX Live freeze has
been cleared, as of tonight's update. (With the exception of a couple
packages with problems, about which I've written the authors.)

And another TeX/TUG newsletter to go with the releases.