- Booklist gives Feeling Very Strange: The New Slipstream Anthology, edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, a starred review. This looks entirely fabulous (figuratively speaking) and if there’s two guys I’d trust to pick good stories, these are the ones. Can’t wait to snag a copy. (Via Jeff Ford.)
- Matt Cheney posts some excerpts from Gilbert Sorrentino’s work. I can’t think of a better way to remember such a fine writer.
- Agent Kristin Nelson (re)posts the top 10 things she’d rather not see in opening chapters of SF submissions.
- Sara Gran has smart things to say about the fallacy that the publishing industry is all cutthroat competition and heartless climbers unwilling to take chances on writers.
- Tom Bissell’s The Father of All Things. Worth reading. (Via Maud.)
- Jennifer Nix weighs in on how the Web should circumvent publishing’s gatekeepers, jumping off a frustrating panel at BEA. (Also via Maud.)
- Matt Ruff has posted thoughts about the Tiptree winner, short and longlist. Especially interesting, his dissenting voice on the inclusion of the "venom cock book" and his pointers to the uproar over Arcana, the piece of fanfiction that made the list (you can find his own dismayed reaction here). (Via Sarah Monette.)