- Slate tests out bike locks. Bottom line: You have to shell out for a really good one.
- Best American Fantasy anthology series announced with the ever-excellent Matt Cheney as series editor and Jeff & Ann VanderMeer as the first year’s guest editors. Congratulations, guys! You’ll be able to rec stories at that site.
- Scalzi and Mrissa in an interesting exchange about the difficulty of writing YA. To which I add: Yes, hard.
- Ed Park on Black Swan Green.
- Lauren Cerand’s "Seven Songs That Will Change The Way You Think About Publicity."
- Farah Mendlesohn reviews James Morrow’s The Last Witchfinder for Strange Horizons. And Morrow names his top 10 witch persecution books in The Guardian. Want to read.
- There’s a new issue of failbetter magazine, which among other things includes "Our Missing Airman" by the fabulous Colleen Mondor. Read it! (And go check out her guest review of Princes Amongst Men at Moorish Girl — I’m reading the book right now.)
- Austin Kleon on Lynda Barry at Oberlin.