• At Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer interviews Peter S. Beagle: "...there are fiction writers out there who are so good at bringing the literal stink of a certain period into your nostrils as you read..."


• The Village Voice profiles Young-Adult Lit "It" couple Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier: "Teen consumers reject the thematic hierarchies that bedevil every other media market, unwittingly creating a utopia for iconoclasts like Scott and Justine, who write teen fiction because it frees their best ideas from the deadly limitations of any adult genre ghetto."


• John Scalzi's Whatever reprints the essay Mark Gruenwald, the father of modern superhero comics by Chris Roberson (The Dragon's Nine Sons).


• Rick Kleffel's Agony Column podcasts a conversation with Lou Anders.


• StarWars.com looks at The Best Star Wars Moments of 2007. [via Club Jade]

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