- Jeff VanderMeer — lately of the enormous and impressive book sale — interviews lit darling Chris Barzak about One for Sorrow.
- A new short story by Etgar Keret (via Callie).
- The origin of ten famous cartoon/animated character names.
- Kevin Kinsella interviews Anya Ulinich about Petropolis.
- "Oh my god, there is a bird on my head and I am naked." Hee. Welcome back, Stephanie Aulenback.
- Susan Beth Pfeffer offers some suggestions for turning theme into story, using the Bad News Bears por example.
- Geoff Ryman’s guest speech at BOREAL 2007 (via Erin).
- Paul Collins’ latest New Scientist piece documents an absolutely terrifying — and forgotten — health scandal involving tens of thousands of women and X-ray beautification treatments that gave them cancer.
- Emily Lazar reads books and chooses authors for The Colbert Report. Tip: Become folksy.