- Colleen Mondor writes compellingly about why Walter Dean Myers should have won an NBA. (Where did the time go? I haven’t read any of the books that were nominated in the children’s category this year, but I plan to start with Autiobiography.)
- Alan DeNiro passes on a press release related to dragon rights. Ahem.
- Jimmy Beck goes poetically smoke free in response to this.
- Good luck to Mark on the Tour de Tuscon! Mark’s chronicles of his training this year have been nothing short of inspirational. Bicycle racing = very hard.
- Twenty Questions with Tom Perrotta at Post Road magazine. (Via the Rake.)
- The Vertical blog is back after a vicious hijacking.
- Kameron Hurley ruminates on meaning in work.
- Keep looking in on the ED SF Project, where new appreciations are being posted all the time. Yay! (And, um, sign up for a story if you haven’t already.)
- Walk the Line. Yeah.