• Congratulations Jenny D!
• BSG S3 details (via Gwenda)
• No, it’s not just you, Tayari. For your consideration: Colson Whitehead’s John Henry Days or Ernest J. Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying.
• Elizabeth Crane on A History of Violence: “Like, if I suddenly found out Ben had a previous life in the Philadelphia mob (I didn’t think so, but I double checked, and he denied it), I think I would be angry about being deceived but I would not express my anger by having sex with him on the stairs after he tried to strangle me.”
• Hedy Weiss on Henry Kisor.
• “For the part of her book that is set on a ranch, Cowart’s research involved visiting a Tifton rodeo where she complied the phone numbers of all the cowboys.” But is this research or a disingenuous way to hook up with men in chaps?
• The Courier Mail reviews The History of Love, but half of the review involves talking about JSF and Krauss. While there’s always room for a little salacious tidbits, I have to ask whether the Courier Mail is running a book review section or a gossip column.
• The Sci Fi Traveling Road Show: a podcast dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, and horror coming from small press. (via Locus)
• Neil Gaiman in podcast form.
• The New Yorker blows more imagery on Phil Collins than the man deserves: “His head is small and round, like a globe, and closely shaved, so that the dark patterns of hair suggest land and the bald parts suggest water.” WTF? Is Alec Wilkinson a new Conde Nast hire or is it still New Yorker policy to find ridiculous profundity in bland and soulless performers?
• How cool is this? Of Montreal were hired as wedding singers. (via the betrothed Tito Perez)
• Sometimes Gawker comes through.
• Booksellers are pissed by the Sunday Times paid placement article.
• Finally, Sarvas comes around.

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