Matt’s Bookosphere 8/5/08

Tori Amos talks “Comic Book Tattoo”

Interview with Jonathan Lethem

Action Audio partners with Drollerie Press

Trends in new SF

Why does the American public distance itself from fantasy?

What makes you stop reading a review?

Hal Duncan’s soundtrack to “Vellum” and “Ink (Thanks, Paul!)

A “Second Life” for literature

Bruce Sterling: “Blogs as dead media”

Towards an understanding of dialogue in style-driven fiction

Review: “Alanya to Alanya” by L. Timmel Duchamp

Review: “Incandescence” by Greg Egan

Call for submissions: “Footprints” edited by Jay Lake and Eric T. Reynolds

Blog recommendations from Brian Keene

Do you feel lucky, steampunk?

Interview: Charles Coleman Finlay on “The Political Prisoner”

All about ghostwriting (with spooky skeleton illo)

How many Kindles have been sold?

Neil Gaiman is elfless in Gaza

John Scalzi on Cult Pop

Podcast fiction: the new frontier?

John Skipp: “Highbrow, Lowbrow, Genre Schmenre”

The Literary Legacy of New York Punk (Richard Hell FTW!)

Kids still debating the existence of dragons with Jeff VanderMeer

Alan Moore on writing

S.T. Joshi’s Arthur Machen collection to feature introduction from Caitlin R. Kiernan

Nancy Kress and others at Mike Brotherton’s Launch Pad

Save Segundo!!!

The New Canon: “Love in the Time of Cholera”

Review: “Orphanage” by Robert Buettner

Kafka’s porn collection sees the light of day (Thanks, Bookninja!)

The Ten oddest travel guides

Robert Buettner on the Jason Wander books

Andrew Wheeler depressed by Readercon

Metal Songs Based on Fantasy Novels (Thanks, John Joseph Adams!)

And another godawful movie based on a Lovecraft story finds its way to a screen near you

Girls do play D&D

Interview with Natasha Rhodes