Crooked Timber: “I mean, didn’t you think the roasted baby was just, y’know, a little bit camp?”

…but the great M. John Harrison has a blog.

New York Times: “‘There will be nothing but baseball and football down there as long as I am mayor,’ Lee Swaney, a retired owner of a heating and air-conditioning business, told the local paper. ‘Those fields weren’t made for soccer.'” (via MeFi)

Laura Miller is okay in my book. After considerable accolades from the blogosphere, Miller’s reviewed Scarlett Thomas’s The End of Mr. Y in Salon.