Friday Hangovers, aka All The Links Fit To Link (Well, Not Really)

Nova Ren Suma's fabulous Turning Points Blog series continues; today is Courtney Summers and there's a list of all the essays so far at the end of the entry.
Cyn Leitich Smith has a fascinating summary of a talk by Canadian book wholesaler Maria Martella.
Two interactive storytelling/enhanced ebook-related posts worth reading: Rachel Stark on Sleep No More and the potential of nonlinear narratives and Laura Miller on some of the issues with adding bells and whistles and music and video.
Jennifer Paull at Book Riot on her genre kryptonite: Girls in Crumbling Estates. I second the ones mentioned and add We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Austin Grossman on the new Watchmen and the need for more innovation in the halls of DC.
Two writing posts I endorse: the value of taking a walk to your writing (YES! I do it daily, unless prevented by weather–walk, then writing time) and Toby Buckell on productivity in bursts.
The fully wonderful A.N. Devers interviewed about Writers Houses at the Big Read Blog. A snippet, in response to where she still wants to visit: "I’d say all of them, but it makes me sound like some kind of cheap writers’ houses floozy. It’s really a tie between The Bronte Parsonage and Virginia Woolf’s Monk House. Woolf visited The Bronte Parsonage and wrote an incredible essay about it called “Haworth, November 1904.” Rounding out the tipsy-top of my wish list: Dostoevsky’s house in Saint Petersburg and the Japanese horror and mystery writer Edogawa Rampo’s house in Tokyo. Oh, and that guy Shakespeare. Here’s a fun fact: P. T. Barnum actually tried to purchase Shakespeare’s birthplace and move it to America."
The Boston Herald on the popularity of fantasy, particularly among younger readers, including comments from the lovely and wise Dora Goss, whose The Thorn and the Blossom is just out.
The Astrobiology Magazine images of the day are GORGEOUS. (Thanks to Tiffany for the pointer.)
"The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World."
Interesting piece on The Power of Introverts.
And, finally, if you don't read Kate Hart's Friday round-up of YA publishing wisdom and wit from twitter, why not? This week's is here.

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