- I solemnly vow to answer all extant emails in the next 48 hours. Promise. I’m the rudest person in the world, I know.
- Remember that Onion AV Club review that tagged Jennifer Egan as a "known chick-lit author" (which sounds like "known child murderer" as a phrase)? Well, its writer stops by Darby’s comments to set the record straight; editors strike again.
- Sara Gran in the NYT on being one of many writers in Brooklyn.
- Unshelved does Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist.
- Adam Stemple shoots a handgun and writes it off as research.
- La Gringa hosts a plea for help from a resident of New Orleans.
- Scott Westerfeld’s The Last Days (one of those better than a sequel, sequel-type books, cousin to Peeps) is OUT OUT OUT. Go buy it. Then post in the spoiler thread.
- Jay at the Bodhisattva is getting very close to naming his top 10 (of 100) spec fic novels of the last 10 years; he weighs in with 11-20.