Links and Things
What Book Should Omnivoracious Pair with Stone Brewing’s Latest Vertical Epic Ale?
Ernest Hemingway’s “Suicidal” U-Boat War
Ask a Book Question: #75 (Murakami and Books to Read in Japan)
The Bat Segundo Show: Dick Cavett
Private school library gets rid of all books
How To Promote a Book on Teacher’s Salary
Jovanka Vuckovic Speaks at The HP Lovecraft Film Fest 2008
The Black Death: A Personal History
Why are we still reading Dickens?
MORE AFTER THE JUMP
Twitter and Gourmet Sex: They’re in the Dictionary Now
Think Lord of the Rings meets His Dark Materials…
Would You Accept a One-Way Ticket to Mars?
Review: Passing for Human, edited by Michael Bishop and Steven Utley
I Don’t Want to Hate Self-Publishers…
Google Books: Authors Guild comes out swinging at Amazon
Summer heat or apocalypse? Three books offer answers.
The Drowning City — Amanda Downum
Judge questions whether Salinger harmed by spin-off
Hal Duncan: Columnist of Sodom
How Not to Engage/Enrage Fandom in One Simple Lesson
Classics, Comics In Masterful Mashups
How to Talk about Sea Monsters
Up Close And Personal With The Dung Beetle
Werewolves are the new vampires (which were the new black)
Literary quips, observations, instructions & warnings #7
Shorties (Flaming Lips, Best Southern Nonfiction, and more)
In the News: The Return of Bat Boy, Tennessee Textbook Blues
6 DEGREES OF DORIAN GRAY (art from a new edition)
Why Geeks Rock by Julie Cohen, author of Girl from Mars
Fall sleeper: A blind cat leads the way in ‘Homer’s Odyssey’
At Home With E. L. Doctorow: Writing About the Stuff of Legend
Lev Grossman Responds to Criticism of His Wall Street Journal Piece
A New Literary History of America
TS Eliot rejected Bloomsbury group’s ‘cursed fund’ to work in bank
Nick Hornby on his readers and new projects
How YouTubers Deal With Rejection Letters (By Burning and/or Shooting Them Off in a Bottle Rocket)