Matt’s Bookosphere 7/25/08

Mike Brotherton on “Why We Crave Stories”

Philip K. Dick story to be adapted as comic book: “The Electric Ant”

Cool article on Stephenie Meyer’s fans, “twilighters,” in the Philippines

Interview with David Anthony Durham (Via Mary Robinette Kowal)

An exclusive excerpt from Michael Moorcock’s book in progress: “Lovers: Mervyn and Maeve Peake. A Personal Memoir.”

Is Joe Abercrombie genre enough?

“After Aquilonia and Having Left Lankhmar: Sword-and-Sorcery since the 1980s”

LOTS MORE AFTER THE JUMP

Interview with Victoria Hanley

Aussie author Colleen McCullough’s vision saved by surgical technique

Review: “Implied Spaces” by Walter Jon Williams

Is genre fiction raising its game? Heralding the return of the “blockbuster with brains”

Alberto Manguel on creating healthy societies

Randy Pausch, “The Last Lecture” author, dead at 47

Literature in Virtual Worlds conference

Libraries enjoy boom as literature becomes mainstream

Defining what exactly it is that you write

Personal confessions about the Sci Fi that changed your life

An appreciation of Clifford D. Simak

Literature grad student takes aim at “The Christian Guide to Fantasy”

“When are critics going to stop congratulating novelists for being good-looking or having other traits unrelated to their books?”

Review: “Lord Tophet” by Gregory Frost

Time for some writing gripes!

Paul Jessup’s keys to good genre fiction

Call for submissions: “Dia De Los Muertos” anthology

Great opening sentences from science fiction

Readercon round-up

“Michael Chabon is the M. Night Shyamalon of American literary fiction”

Review: “Sly Mongoose” by Tobias Buckell

Defining the premise of your novel well, and why your career depends on it

New interview with Ekaterina Sedia

Cool interview with Chuck Palahniuk

Review: “Alive in Necropolis” by Doug Dorst

Review: “Spook Country” by William Gibson

Stephen King to offer 25 episode “graphic video” adaptation of unpublished short story

Review: “Martin Martin’s On the Other Side” by Mark Werhnam

True tales of piracy and plunder

When a book doesn’t sell, who is really to blame?

Movie adaptation “H.P. Lovecraft’s The Tomb” an “egregious offense to decency”

Now even fictional characters are Twittering

Oh for God’s sake.

Bringing together authors and readers

Take a peek at Matthew Cheney’s “to be read” pile

Who will digitize the world’s books?

“Watch out for the rippers!” (satirical piece about age categorizations for fiction)

Review: “Wildside” by Steven Gould

Cory Doctorow praises Jack Womack’s “Senseless Acts of Random Violence”

Fantasy Magazine looking for audio dramas to podcast