Matt’s Bookosphere 8/11/08

Interesting piece on WorldCon and “the greying of fandom”

Chuck Palahniuk: Reluctant Showman

King Rat rounds up free books online

McSweeney’s: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Mad Cow Disease”

Review: “The Peace War” by Vernor Vinge

On weaving politics into fiction

Philip Palmer on “Debatable Space”

In praise of chain bookstores

Cool piece on Argentinian writer Leopoldo Lugones

Review: “After Dark” by Haruki Murakami

Tim Pratt: “The Kids of Today Must Defend Themselves Against the Seventies”

“I strongly believe stories should do more than just entertain.”

John DeNardo on “My Favorite Science Fiction Story”

Some book pr0n at Antick Musings

“SF Market for Women”

“The Science of Star Wars: The Clone Wars” Q&A

Nancy Kress on Denvention

Review: “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” by Cory Doctorow

Literature lost (and found) in translation

On the “popular genres”

New review site: litmob.com “like Pitchfork for books”

“So You Want to be a Writer? Here’s How”

On the habit of writing every day

Post-Hugo interview with John Scalzi

Opera based on “Of Love and Other Demons”

Do all of Stephen King’s kids write?

Eek! It’s another Lit Meme!

Steve Buchheit offers a mea culpa to John Scalzi (Very cool of you, Steve, btw)

Classic literature joins the social web

Melbourne to host World SF Convention in 2010

Oh, Sword and Sorcery: Where art thou?

Four books you’ll love

….and it’s time for Seward City News’ “Weird Book of the Week”