“What’s Next” predictions for the lit world over at the Center for Fiction, with wit and wisdom from the likes of Richard Nash, Lauren Cerand and Kevin Sampsell.
One of my Other Voices Books authors, Zoe Zolbrod, is interviewed at Fictionaut.
Zoe mentions a good post on parenting as a writer/artist, by Jillian Lauren. The post appears on Greg Olear’s Fathermucker blog. It’s a cornucopia of cool stuff.
And speaking of Fictionaut, do you know about their new, rotating guest-editorships? Meg Pokrass kicks things off, and stay tuned for exciting surprises.
Publishers Weekly gives some deserved love to Brad Listi, Tyson Cornell and Tom Lutz for their three innovative podcast series.
Is anyone else growing weary of the brouhaha about whether having a penis or a vagina makes you less likely to succeed as a writer? (Here’s a tip: no matter what your anatomy, you are 99.5% guaranteed to never “succeed” as a writer. Embrace it and keep that bartending/teaching job.) The latest on the agony of being male, at Salon.
Provocative piece on Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds—more than just the author’s personal relationship with sci fi—over at The Millions.
I’m still getting the hang of this technology thing. I linked to Emily Rapp’s phenomenal blog last week, but due to a tech glitch her written-for-the-Sunday-Rumpus essay never appeared. Mea culpa, people. She’s up now, so find more of her brilliance here.
Shya Scanlon’s been doing a kick ass job expanding the book reviews section over at my other home turf, The Nervous Breakdown. Congrats to Arielle Bernstein, his new associate editor!
Finally, are you already subscribing to Letters in the Mail? Well, my mother is, and she’s breathlessly awaiting Margaret Cho. I mean, who’s not breathlessly awaiting Margaret Cho? Here, Persephone offers an interesting analysis of Cho’s recent gasket-blowing on Twitter.
