Why is Daniel Soar so concerned with Martin Amis’s anger? Why doesn’t he recognize that writers sometimes write angry because they give more than a few damns about the universe?

My Rudy Rucker overview can be found in today’s Los Angeles Times.

A certain C. Max Magee can be found in the latest Poets and Writers, examining the efforts of publishers to attract Chinese literary talent.

The latest Harry Potter book will be called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. How long did it take for them to whip this up? Three minutes? “Hallow” is more commonly used as a verb and the juxtaposition of “death” before “hallows” suggests that any mass killing of major characters (as suggested in other reports) will be less than reverential.