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James Wallace Harris breaks down what stories are in which “Best of” anthologies this year – very cool!

Roadtrip! Comic books, Weird Tales, vintage paperbacks – sounds like my kind of day

Congratulations to Paul Tremblay, 1st Place Winner in the Chizine/Leisure Fiction short story contest

Review: “Seeds of Change” edited by John Joseph Adams

Locus Awards problems

“Watchmen” artist Dave Gibbons on Alan Moore’s choice to distance himself from Hollywood

Kid’s books, unlabeled

Some quick Clarkesworld updates

“I don’t want to live in a Pollyanna universe, but I do know this. Love and enthusiasm for what I do has always carried me through, and I hope to goodness it continues to do so. And, hey, if that love and enthusiasm lead me to a Bestseller, I can deal with that. So my motto is the same as always. Be true to yourself. Do what you love and the good things in life will come to you. But don’t ask me for a loan.” Joe R. Lansdale, Writer of the Purple Rage, story notes.”

What “Shelf Monkey” might have looked like

“You don’t need to be a neuroscientist or a cultural snob to realise repeated exposure to fast-paced video games and snippet-style music videos makes it harder to embark on reading a novel.”

New rules will place Canadian literature in Canadian schools

Every kind of something-punk literature that you could possibly imagine (Still no PunkPunk, Felix Gilman. Seize the day!)

Interview with “Ant King” author Benjamin Rosenbaum

Librivox Short Science Fiction Story Collection Podcast

An exhausting weekend with Michael Cisco, Laird Barron, Liz Hand…

Michael Moorcock to appear at Coastcon 32 in Mississippi

Paul Raven rounds up a bunch of cool free fiction

Review: “Secrets of the Sea” by Nicholas Shakespeare

Readers sound off on what they’re looking for in the “Books” section of the Chicago Tribune

More on the demise of the newspaper book review

Young Adult novels about life on the fringe

Check out the covers for Scott Lynch’s “The Republic of Thieves” and Felix Gilman’s “Gears of the City”

M. John Harrison reviews”Night Work” by Thomas Glavinic

WSJ on Chris Adrian, author of “A Better Angel”

Michael Chabon is serious about genre

“So I wanted to address the question: Is there a New York literary scene, and if so, does being a part of it help you get published, no matter your talent (or lack thereof)?”

Theodora Goss on finding your voice

Interview with cover artist John Picacio (covers for Jeffrey Ford, Frederik Pohl, Walter M. Miller – great stuff!)

Teacher to use Nancy Kress’ “Dogs” in class

Book Porn at the OF Blog

Fantasy Magazine looking for a slush reader

Cat Rambo interviews L. Timmel Duchamp

“Online, R U Really Reading?”

Review: “The Iron Hunt” by Marjorie M. Liu

Win a signed copy of “Toll the Hounds” by Steven Erikson

Review: “How Fiction Works” by James Wood (everybody is talking about this thing)

What role does religion play in speculative fiction?

A few comments about Lovecraft and werewolves

N. Robin Crossby, creator of “Harn” roleplaying supplements dead at 54

Written by Matt Staggs

July 26, 2008 at 7:14 pm

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