Matt’s Bookosphere 6/6/08

New Dungeons & Dragons edition “rolls a 20″ for playability.

Forget Brooklyn: It’s all about Russian-American writers now.

Listen: interview with William Gibson.

The Grimly Grim Hallmark of Awfully Bad Writing.

PlanetGanja: Sci Fi can change the world.

Interview with “Tiny Deaths” author Robert Shearman.

Favorite non-places to go.

Bilingual children’s (!) biography of Gabriel Garcia-Marquez opens doors for teacher.

Advice for authors preparing themselves for an interview.

Been Peek is an excellent 1930’s husband. Are you?

Review of Jonatham Lethem’s “Girl in Landscape.”

Vylar Kaftan’s “Blank Sexzra”

Hal Duncan and his Spanish translator stumble over some things…

Caitlin Kittredge’s worst story ideas: “The urban fantasy about vaudaun starring a redneck white chick, her pickup truck and some dead chickens.”

Science fiction, literature and the haters: Why does so little science fiction rise to the standards of literary fiction?

Ec’h-Pi-El Speaks: an autobiographical sketch by H.P. Lovecraft.

Jonathan Wood: “this theme of rescue that is invading the literature of our youth is teaching them non-self-reliance (or whatever the correct word is) a form of apathy. It’s teaching them they’re stuck, the can’t do anything themselves to get out of their situation. And that worries me.”

Jay Lake’s writing process: the Plot Diamond.

Paul Jessup’s thoughts on the writing process.

Someone told Felix Gilman that his author photo sucks.

Michael Berry reviews “The Resurrectionist,” “Steampunk” and more.

Free electronic copy of “Orphans of Chaos” by John C. Wright.

Noted lately: male sf writers making their strong female heroines go shopping and glory in fancy ball gowns.

The vision for the Kindle is every book in print in every language available in 60 seconds.

Interview with Conrad Williams.

What makes a review a “good one?”

Nick Mamatas ponders zombie attacks…

Day to Day Life in a Primitive Fantasy World

Richard Preston interview on “Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science.”

Having problems with your story structure? Try Post-Its!

Links to Philip K. Dick documentary on YouTube.

“How many book groups have I gone to where steering conversation to the book is like driving Ben-Hur’s chariot?”

Win a free copy of “All We Ever Wanted Was Everything” by Janelle Brown (anyone else think of the Bauhaus song – or is it just me? -Matt)

Rod Lott reviews “The Ten-Cent Plague.”

“Have you ever tried to hack into my typewriter? It’s very secure.”

Lilith Saintcrow: How to write a sex scene.

The A.V. Club’s Tasha Robinson interviews Harlan Ellison.

Review of “The Gone Away World” by Nick Harkaway.

Nick DiChario more concerned with world-wrecking than world-building in “Valley of Day-Glo.”