Matt’s Bookosphere 7/02/08

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer talk about the music of their lives at NY TIMES Papercuts blog

Interview with Mark Teppo!

Richard K. Morgan to guest blog at Omnivoracious

The Clockwork Phoenix

“You’re a great man, Cat Rambo.”

Review “The Alchemy of Stone”by Ekaterina Sedia

“To you I’m just a novel that you wish you never wrote.”

Space squids and mushroom men: contest?

Vaya con Dios, Octavio Paz.

The Top 35 F&SF magazine covers of all time

Let’s talk about your reading habits

Revisiting Joe R. Lansdale’s “The Magic Wagon”

Mind Meld: is there gender imbalance in genre fiction publishing?

Kafka: the writer who didn’t want to be read

“And the Bloggers say Oy”

Michael Ian Black: “It’s official: I’m a genius.”

The difficulties of the book blurb

Rick Klaw enthuses: Golden Age of Comics site

Someone just read “Rant.”

Walter Jon Williams is eeeeverywheeeeerre!

Behold the Specusphere!

Preserving our independents: a summer reading list

Gerard Way’s pre-My Chemical Romance graphic novel

Film adaptation of Thomas M. Disch’s “The Brave Little Toaster” counted among weirdest SF kid’s movies

Martha Stewart’s Parlor seeks Open Source Writer Flies

Writer Philip Margolin “prepares like an attorney.”

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

SF Diplomat: Genres Vs. Modes

All about The Goosle

More about The Goosle

“That Chabon Sure Has Chutzpah”

Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” coming to comic book format

Interview with Chris Howard

Walt Whitman in Brooklyn

Caitlin R. Kiernan to be at ReaderCon!

William Browning Spencer and Joe Hill interviewed

Review of Glen Cook’s “The Tower of Fear”

Antick Musings takes on “The Resurrectionist”

Joe R. Lansdale: a look at his work

Christopher Hitchen is waterboarded. (Insert your own joke about answered prayers)

The delicate ecology of the used bookstore

Valley of Day-Glo review

Gregory Bernard Banks on disability in F/SF

How did Hunter S. Thompson beat writer’s block?

Powell’s books daily dose

Win: Return of the Crimson Guard by Ian Cameron Esslemont

On Calling Yourself a Bookslut

Gallery of literary tattoos

Charles Stross on: Saturn’s Children