- Interview with Margo Lanagan at Forbidden Planet International.
- Kevin Wignall on rich authors in the UK.
- Ten things Toni knows about writing.
- Jim Hanas reveals the real reason celebrities pick odd names for their children.
- Maureen McHugh on Capote: But as a portrait of how writers love and use the people around them, it is quite good. I don’t know any Truman Capotes, and I’d like to think I’m not one, but all of us, at least in some small way, take advantage of the people around us.
- Max at the Millions on a floating library, more controversial than you might think.
- The Written Nerd loves David Mitchell. (I know someone who’ll like this one. Psst, Shana.)
- The Watcher on the news that ASP and DP aren’t going to be running Gilmore Girls next season (and likely its final). I just hope they get it together the rest of this season and don’t go out on the a note like it will be if they don’t.
- WaPo piece on Mark Cline’s art: "It’s my gift," he says. "I don’t know where it comes from. I’m not going to tell you it comes from God or the Devil or Alpha Centauri. But I have been given this amazing gift and I have to use it. I have to."