Matt’s Bookosphere 6/30/08

Glamorous beauty queen “it” girl says that the last book she read was Chuck Palahniuk’s “Invisible Monsters.” Irony meter explodes!

Aventures in Reading’s Joe Sherry interviews Nancy Kress

Happy birthday, Paul Tremblay!

Jeffrey Ford’s “The Drowned Life” gets Publisher’s Weekly review

Interview with Jeffrey Ford!

LOTS MORE AFTER THE JUMP!

High praise for Joe Abercrombie’s “The Last Argument of Kings”

Look out for the new issue of SFX – with writing advice from Jeffrey Thomas, Joe Abercrombie and James Wyatt!

Jonathan Lethem is in a band?

First round of voting for Feminist SF’s “Top ten list of obscure books!”

Greg Van Eekhout needs some help doing some research on heists. Put down the pistol and money bag and help him out.

“Who needs book reviews?”

Anca is having a mild genre identity crisis. Thoughts?

Secret behind author’s book? Rat pee. Say Cheese!

Lots of cool stuff for the “livelongandmarry” auction!

Chrispy gets to chat up Joe R. Lansdale about H.P. Lovecraft

Martin Amis to lead debate on religion and literature

Apex Book Company podcasts about their trip to Hypericon

Daniel Abraham talks about the “long price.”

Anonymous is a fan of Elizabeth Bear

Cory Doctorow sings a Kindle

Book porn

Jay Lake at the Iron Springs workshop

Would you be interested in seeing more music composed for books? (Have you heard Neal Stephenson’s soundtrack for his book?)

Ala Ebtekar interview

New reading meme!

A conversation with Jacqueline Carey

“Book of chameleons” too affected to be any good

“The Book of Chameleons” is a delightful read, a tour de force of the imagination and of storytelling.

Report from the SF hall of fame ceremony

Jessa Crispin, more, join NPR’s book staff

Stephen Burt on Philip K. Dick

Fiona Maazel on Bat Segundo!

Interview with Paolo Bacigalupi

The History of Science Fiction

Interview with Jim Shepard and Glen Hirschberg

Mike Brotherton takes a swing at Coehlo’s “The Alchemist”

Excerpt from Tobias Buckell’s “Sly Mongoose”

When good authors write bad books

Can you sell one story by telling another?

American lit and the summer