Matt’s Bookosphere 6/29/08

SF vs. LitFic: 15 rounds, no holds barred!

Sarah Monette: “On the Vile Habit of Thinking Too Much.”

Joe Sherry interviews Nancy Kress about “Dogs.”

Paolo Bacigalupi (”Pump Six”)  interviewed on NPR.

Elizabeth Bear: Live Long and Marry

Jeff VanderMeer’s “Big Ass Fantasy List” (lots of good reading recommendations)

Tallahassee Democrat on “Steampunk”

Tune in this Tuesday for Thomas M. Disch on Dr. Blogstein’s Radio Happy Hour!

LOTS MORE AFTER THE JUMP!

Ben Bova: writers must write every day

Guillermo del Toro talks “The Hobbit,” “Hellboy II,” and “Death: the High Cost of Living.”

Gaiman, Zelazny and more coming to your iPod

Badge It For Pratchett!

Cat Rambo says, “Go vote for the Surgeon’s Tale!”

Interview with Daniel Grandbois about “Unlucky Lucky Days”

“007″ not number one on Centre Court

1001 Books for Every Mood?

Review: “Dogs” by Nancy Kress

The Average American has only read SIX of these top 100 books. What about you? (I scored 24, but this is a pretty stupid list.)

Author Adejemilua reveals he paid publisher to print his book

Who Killed Science Fiction?

Doyle’s SF Genre Rant

Review: “The Faith of a Writer” by Joyce Carol Oates

The writer’s creativity finder

My children say: Mama, my poor Papa where might he be, maybe the sun passes over his bones, maybe the rain and the air, where might he be? As if my poor papa was an animal. This is sorrow …

What’s the next hot sub-genre?

What is fiction?

Sample a bit of Trent Jamieson’s juvenilia in the form of his long-lost sword and sorcery novel

Any Moorcock experts in the house? Help this guy figure out the title to this book

“Like many early 80s gamers, I sought out all of those books listed at the back of the old AD&D DM’s Guide with a fervor seldom seen outside Islamist terror cells...”

Review: “The Broken World” by Tim Etchells

Brian Keene and Nick Mamatas reading from collaborative work (”The Damned Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham”) at Context 21

Review: “The Hakawati” by Rabih Alameddine

Interview with Milton Davis, author of “Meji,” an African-based fantasy/SF novel

I would take more cart rides, contemplate more dawns, and play with more children, If I had another life ahead of me. But already you see, I am 85, and I know that I am dying. – Jorge Luis Borges

Changes ahead for Lovecraft Legacy blog (I love this site – Matt)

Caitlin R. Kiernan gives us a progress report on “The Red Tree”

Q&A time with Neil Gaiman…and Bees!

Subterranean announces signed, limited edition of “The Terror”

If you’ve seen “Southland Tales” let John Joseph Adams know if it’s worth watching

Ed Park (”Personal Days”) on Bat Segundo

Review: “The Way to Paradise” by Mario Vargas Llosa

Reportage on the Lift Festival (like the GodSpeed You! Black Emperor reference, btw!)

John Scalzi’s cool cat photo

The Five Essential Elements of a Book Proposal

Art from IDW’s upcoming “Dr. Who” comic

10 Books that were better off on Paper (Failures of Cinema)

Una McCormack interview on spin-off fiction