• Daniel Olivas interviews Salvador Plascencia.
• Lev Grossman on the Ian McEwan mess: “The disparity between the greatness of McEwan’s achievement and the pettiness of this complaint is vertiginous. That McEwan even bothered to answer the charges is gobsmacking.”
• Five novels for your inner drunk. (via Books Inq.)
• 75 Books? Try committing 100 poems to memory over a year. (via Bookninja)
• Terry Teachout, “In the Mood.”
• Just when you thought the Madonna adoption flap couldn’t get any more ridiculous, it goes into overdrive.
• Occasional Superheroine: an essential blog chronicling women’s issues in comics, as experienced by former DC/Valiant editor Valerie D’Orazio. (via The Beat)
• Pirate illustrations from Patricia Storms.
• Chasing Ray has kickstarted a series looking into books about writing.
• The Zuckerman Cycle will come to an end.
• George Saunders on Borat.
• Michael Allen on page layout.
• If you haven’t been reading Derik Badman‘s series, “Rethinking Transitions,” comic makers take note.
• The justice system works! (via Syntax of Things)
• Everything you could possibly want to know about Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn.
• Wondering how you can maneuver your way onto the Costa shortlist? Try cancer.
• What goes on at Beatrice Monti’s writers colony?
• Man, poor Ngugi wa Thiong’o just can’t get a break. In addition to the Vitale incident, four guys tried to rob him a few years ago in Nairobi.
• No surprise. On the book digitizing front, Yahoo doesn’t like Google.
• Kevin Sampsell devises new literary terms. This sounds suspiciously similar to the Literary Hipster’s Handbook!

Talk about a veritable cyberlynching. First Gawker, now Kevin Sampsell.

• Adam Rogers eavesdrops on BSG‘s writers. (via Locus)
• Jenny Davidson’s “The Other Amazon.”
• Professor Fury’s “Songs I Couldn’t Get Out of My Head in 2006.”

© 2006, Edward Champion. All rights reserved.

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