• The Agony Column podcast-interviews Karen Joy Fowler (Wit's End).


• Recent NPR broadcasts feature JK Rowling's Harvard commencement speech and Ursula K. Le Guin's You Must Read This column about Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. [via Locus Online]


• Times Online profiles Terry Pratchett. "Author and Alzheimer's sufferer Terry Pratchett tells Bryan Appleyard how he is controlling the progress of the disease." [via Matt Staggs guest-blogging at Jeff VanderMeer's Ecstatic Days]


• The Courier-Journal has a short Q&A with Ray Bradbury: "So when I was 12 years old, I fell in love with Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Carter, 'Warlord of Mars,' and when I got a toy typewriter I wrote my first story." [also via Matt Staggs. OK, two links from Staggs. So what?]


• Here's some audio of George R.R. Martin reading the passage he wrote for the book The Faces of Fantasy. [also via Matt Staggs. Maybe three links from the same source is pushing it?]


• Library Journal has an interesting article on urban Fantasy which includes a very nice Urban Fantasy Reading List. [also via Matt Staggs. Right. Now we've passed into the realm of theft. ]


• This has to be the worst Batman squirt toy ever.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday June 09, 2008 at 12:15 AM
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