- I seem to have a Martian Death Cold now. Am hoping it goes away as the day progresses.
- Booksquare on rules in writing, spinning off the Great MFA Debate of this week (as opposed to last month). The comments raise some interesting questions re: the whole looking-in-a-mirror thing.
- Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller sounds excellent.
- Turkish Delight is yucky. (Via Jenny D, who also has a list of stellar year-end recs.)
- A bunch of horror and dark fantasy writers talk the talk at Storytellers Unplugged. (Via Weirdwriter.)
- Melville on the Green River makes me happy.
- Hal Duncan on definitions of SF.
- Caroline Alexander on the first entries into Canongates’s new myth series, by Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood and Jeanette Winterson.
- Bicycle street art.