Matt’s Bookosphere 6/24/08

Dark Roasted Blend interviews Nancy Kress

Jeff VanderMeer declares Global Blogger Amnesty Week (for Apologies)

“Explaining Science Fiction to women”

Charles Tan interviews Sarah Monette

Writer M. Christian has the goods and will deliver

Twelve Books you Should Read at the Beach This Summer

The Art of Arkham House

Mike Jasper’s “A Gathering of Doorways” coming in September: Get a PDF NOW!

Clarkesworld and Nick Mamatas

TONS MORE GOOD STUFF AFTER THE JUMP

Roy Christopher’s Annual Summer Reading List

Puppet Passage of the Day

Alexandra Sokoloff on “The Genre Dilemma”

Win a free copy of Paul Kearney’s “The 10,000″

“What passes for fantasy these days, is mostly action-adventure stories dressed up with swords and dragons. There is no symbolism- the history of the world, the gods, the monsters, the magic, all of it is explained for you.”

McSweeney’s :”All Known Metal Bands.”

Mike Brotherton asks, “What do you people want?”

Roll up your sleeves, people: it’s time to define a genre (Bizarro)

Interview with Kerry Cohen, author “Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity.”

Review: “The Born Queen” by Greg Keyes

Recommended reads from Larry at OF Blog of the Fallen

Part One of a review of Chris Roberson’s Celestial Empire stories

Lucy Boston’s “The Children of Green Knowe” to be adapted for film

Meg Gardiner, China Lake and Stephen King: The Complete Story

The Hater: Christian Novel “The Shack” Characterizes God as basically Queen Latifah

Interview with Rachel Smith of “Bitten By Books”

Our favorite Bookslut Jessa Crispin reviews Sarah Hall’s “Daughters of the North”

Ed Champion’s claws are out

Critics pick their most loathed books of all time

The new electronic age of literary journals (or, “Say, I hear there’s this internet thing now.”)

First two chapters of “Wicked Gentlemen” by Ginn Hale

Review: Steampunk, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

John Scalzi finds his book renamed “Toe’s Tale” by Chapters.CA

Rock, rock, rock, rock rock n’ roll book club….

Review: “Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse”

Joe Sherry checks in from Fourth Street Fantasy

Exterminate all rational thought: William S. Burroughs shotgun painting up for auction

DIY Literary Scene: How to Build a Literary Gathering

Wanna come up and see my varmint guards?

In which Jeffrey Thomas damns a reader to hell

Cat Rambo is organizing a breakfast meeting at both ReaderCon and WorldCon for folks who have been, or hope to be, published in Fantasy Magazine

Michael Jasper falls prey to Twitter

Dictators portrayed in literature

“The White Guy: a Field Guide.”

Book Blast Giveaway!

Day 29 of Blasphemous Horrors

“The fun thing with rewrites is, you get to hate your book all over again.” – Greg Van Eekhout

Ian Rankin works to make Scotland more literate

Cool review of Dark Animus #10/#11

Review of Flytrap #9

Tim Pratt says he’s out of stories…

Need some Summer Reading Picks?

Welcome…to Urban Fantasy Land!

Review: “Hell and Earth” by Elizabeth Bear

The Post-Apocalyptic is Red Hot

Leo Tolstoy and Sunblock

Agent representing authors posthumously

All of us love the Wolverine Frog, Matt, but it needs its space…