Matt’s Bookosphere 6/14/08

Pulloto #2 Brings the Strange

Gore Vidal hates you

“Heliotrope” is looking for cover art

Review: Dave Duncan’s “The Alchemist’s Code”

Ye gods, that’s specific: “Hey can someone recommend me something that might read like a Spike Lee movie, based in Brooklyn 70’s 80’s 90’s?”

“Cuban Passage” author is a master of evasion

“I am Iron Klaw!” Rick Klaw on building your own “Iron Man” armor

Review: “Lonely Werewolf Girl”

Mark Deniz interviews Steve Berman

(LOTS MORE AFTER THE JUMP)

Trivia about famous authors

Christopher Hitchens: secret fan of high-brow literature

A book tour to remember: Techno-hauntings and Godzilla-sized eighteen wheelers

Zhu Wen, author of “I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China” says, “I’m a lazy guy.”

A Gay/Lesbian History of Britain

Joe R. Lansdale signing in Nashville

Is SF fizzing, fuzzing, spurting?

“Encountering Enchantment: A Guide to Speculative Fiction for Teens”

Fantasy has always been a neglected genre, dismissed as frivolous at best and as down right offending at worst.

Twelve collections long-listed for BFSA

Somebody stop them before it’s too late

J. K. Holmes Q&A

Jeffrey Ford on Gardner’s “Mickellson’s Ghosts”: It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing – hallucinogenic, apocalyptic, complex, paranoid and powerful, written in a style consciously borrowed, as Gardner attests to in his intro, from contemporary realist writers like John Updike.

Ian Fleming urged appeasement of Adolf Hitler?

Most promising writers of 1982 in hindsight

Review: “In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers” by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Jay Lake on inspiration

Sci-Fi podcast roundup

Review: “The Hakawati” by Rabi Alamedinne

“The science patrol wants you!”

Please stop with the zombie outbreak blogging

Whipping Girl: a Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Feminity

Review: Tom Piccirilli’s “The Cold Spot.”

How we Rest in Peace

Caitlin R. Kiernan: “If I believed in gods who passed judgment on “sinners,” I’d envision a special hell for authors, for the lifetimes we spend breaking the lives and minds of our characters, trapped there in their sooty little universes.”