- Chuck Wendig offers some of his inimitable wisdom about fixing a broken (or just sprained) book. Lots of good stuff there.
- Everybody dance now: There's a new story by Genevieve up at Lightspeed, "The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring."
- Stephanie Anderson (aka Bookavore) offers some recommended books that she keeps in her back pocket for special moments.
- Anindita has two fascinating entries: the first about being caught by chance at the twitter intersection between a friend who wrote a (pretty snarky) NYT review and author Matthew Pearl and the happy follow-up about a nice exchange with Pearl after her first post. Lots of excellent points and questions raised about this miniscule world we're all inhabiting.
- William Gibson on personal microculture: "We [are] shaped as writers, I believe, not much by who our favorite writers are as by our general experience of fiction. Learning to write fiction, we learn to listen for our own acquired sense of what feels right, based on the totality of the pleasure (or its lack) that fiction has provided us. Not direct emulation, but rather a matter of a personal micro-culture."
- Interesting PW piece about whether teens are embracing e-books.
- A roundtable with the ladies of Community (via Dave).