Grumpy Old Bookman: “[I]f there is one person this week who has proved that she can hack it at the highest level, it is Laurell K. Hamilton.”

Diane Setterfield gets love from Frank Wilson and Kevin Holtsberry.

William Gibson: “The fear induced by terrorism mirrors the irrational psychology that makes state lotteries an utterly reliable form of stupidity tax. A huge statistical asymmetry serves as fulcrum for a spectral yet powerful lever: apprehension of the next jackpot. We’re terrorized not by the actual explosion, which statistically we’re almost never present for, but by our apprehension of the next one.” (via Powell’s Blog)

…Tayari has groupies!

My review of Haruki Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman appears in today’s Philly Inquirer.