What does the future of publishing hold?
What foes the MFA industry mean for writing in the long term?
Philip Roth gets the roasting treatment
NPR shorts does a reading of Philip K. Dick's "Beyond Lies the Wub"
Art is a social construct; so what?
"The SF short fiction market is toast".
But then, short stories were never quite as lucrative as people think...
Speaking of which, John Scalzi has an idea; the "shareware short story".
Yes, you can have a novel with talking animals.
Franzen vs. Wood, competing to see who can be more annoying.
What's the real problem with reading?
The Strand still sucks. And let's not fool ourselves, it's always sucked.
John Scalzi examines why SF writers are jumping ship for YA. SF/F as a field wasn't worth Scott Westerfeld's time anymore. MediaBistro expands on this.
China's bizarre best-selling author. Not mentioned in the article: he's also a plagiarist.
Cory Doctorow wants writers to "think like a dandelion", and spread their seeds far a wide.
David Lapham has a blog. One of the best creators in comics lets us in on his weird world... (Also check out his new comic Young Liars which is freakin brilliant.)
And finally, Does fiction in the VQR have "a lack of attention to character and a focus instead on culture and outside events"?