- Happy Wednesday, because yes, yes, it is one. To celebrate, a collection of many links…
- An excellent Vulture interview with Callie Khouri about Nashville et things. Snippet: "We’re constantly looking for songs that we love, and then we write towards them. We go, “Here’s where we’re starting, story-wise,” and then as we go along, we get a bunch of songs that we know we want to record, and we record a block of them. Then we just start folding them into story at various points." (You are watching this show, right? RIGHT?)
- I've been remiss in not pointing to the indiegogo to help revitalize legendary and amazing children's/YA bookstore Books of Wonder. Go here for more info and to pitch in; they've got two weeks left and are less than halfway to their goal.
- The entire archive of Omni magazine is online.
- Also via io9: freaky dancing pig.
- The New York Times hit Kentucky's doughnut trail. Combine it withthe bourbon one, and you know you want to come visit.
- Getting ready to entertain for the holidays or need a great cookbook for a gift? I can't believe I haven't mentioned the FABULOUS Kim O'Donnel's brand-new cookbook, The Meat Lover's Meatless Celebrations, the follow-up to her The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook, which is a stand-by in our house. Here's a great review of the new one. (I believe we test-kitchened at least one recipe in here and it was AMAZEBALLS. Must get a copy and try the rest, stat.)
- The cat cafe culture of Tokyo at Messy Nessy Chic.
- Fascinating Slate look at the National Book Awards intrigue in 1962, the year Walker Percy's The Moviegoer won. (Semi-related: In Nancy Pearl's recent Locus magazine interview, she said The Moviegoer didn't hold up for her when she went back for a reread. Which has now made me afraid to read it again, since I loved it the first time around. Ah, here's a post from Pearl about her disappointing revisit.)
- Why Authors Are Crazy tumblr. (Hat tip to Malinda Lo for the pointer.)
- The most excellent Carrie Ryan has a brand-new book out, the second in the Infinity Ring series, Divide and Conquer.
- PW covered the KidLit Cares auction.
- Great post on showing and telling from Zoë Marriott.
- The always super-smart Beth Revis on why sometimes you have to delete to move ahead with a project…and why that is winning.
- Tie-in dolls from Twilight, LOTR, The Vampire Diaries, and others repainted to insanely realistic results.