- Notes from a writer who who attended Lynda Barry’s Writing the Unthinkable workshop. (via Austin)
- Cylon jack-o-lantern! Robotic Dalek Pumpkin! (via Big Blog O Cheese) And a haunted house made of balloons! (Via Deanna Hoak)
- Six word stories at Wired, including lots of outtakes that didn’t make the mag. (via EVERYWHERE)
- The Wednesday Chef makes liking Chipotle acceptable with one fell–albeit subtle–swoop.
- Niall Harrison on the dangers to readers of stories using real people as jumping off points. I avoid these dangers by assuming all fiction is lies, LIES!
- Two excellent responses to M.T. Anderson’s most excellent Octavian Nothing: Matt Cheney and Meghan McCarron. I will get around to writing about this book more fully here, but, basically, I second everything these guys have said.
- The divine Lauren Cerand on online publicity for writers.
- Jenny Davidson on Marvin Millar’s delightful book The Good Fairies of New York, which I am beyond thrilled to see Soft Skull finally bringing to the U.S. I read this novel years ago in a British omnibus edition with several of Millar’s other novels. So much fun. Not your usual fairy-types. And, yes, the only book that readily leaps to mind where a protag has a colostomy bag.
- Mr. McLaren on aging and his shifting interpretation of a W.B. Yeats’ poem.
- Back later/tomorrow with a post on airplane reading & other stuff.