- Tod Goldberg offers his opinion on whether writing can be taught.
- Philip K. Dick interview from 1977. (Via Maud, who also transcribed some of Ray Bradbury’s comments on writing a screenplay of Moby Dick.)
- Midori Snyder on noir and fantasy, in which she links to Raymond Chandler’s "Realism and Fairyland."
- La Gringa has all the relevant links to the uproar over GalleyCat’s celebration of publishing hotness.
- One Story has a blog now (and they just took a story from Matt Cheney: yay!).
- Associated Press profile of Ms. Kelly Link. (Via Largehearted Boy.)
- Rebecca Skloot extracts some ways writers found their muses from Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of the Senses. Dame Edith Sitwell: What a drama queen.
- Finally, the LBC has announced the next three nominated titles (yep, we’re going to three, which makes me very happy), which will be discussed in October. I’ve read Manbug and Firmin so far and would recommend both happily. (And hey, another good thing: all three are SHORT. As is time.)