SF Tidbits for 8/9/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Odyssey

  Workshop on Elaine

  Isaak.

• Arafat Kazi interviews Paolo

  Bacigalupi. (via Gord Sellar)

• Zombie

  Popcorn Radio interviews Gail

  Carriger (video).

• Greg Baldino profiles Ray

  Bradbury.

• Boston.com interviews J.C.

  Hallman.

• The Agony Column interviews Tim

  Powers (podcast).

• Tor.com Editorial

  Roundtable: The Roots of Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy.

• Brit

  Mandelo interviews Steve

  Berman.

• Angela Slatter interviews Marshall

  Payne.

• Jonathan Strahan chats with Gary

  K. Wolfe (podcast).

• Jon Armstrong interviews Rose

  Fox and Graham Sleight (podcast).

News

• Artist

  Builds Rooms Out of Books.

• Congratulations

  to the 2010 Chesley Award Winners!

• Reynolds

  & Conroy Win Sidewise Awards.

Articles

• Benjamin

  Tate on How

  do you find books?

• Jeff VanderMeer on The

  Pillars of Your Public Booklife: What Do You Find Most Important?

• Larry

  Nolen on Cultural

  materialism and historicism in the reading of speculative literature.

• Angela

  Slatter On

  reprint collections or Never accept a raisin danish from an Evil Monkey.

• Amy

  Sterling Casil on The

  World is Ready For Your Book – But Are You?

• Madeleine E.

  Robins on Just Stop.

  Now.

• Chris Dolley on Megalomania

  101.

• Sherwood Smith on Series

  Payoffs.

• Janice Hardy on Find

  Your Plot Fridays: Back Fill Those Plot Holes.

• Nicola

  Morgan on Selling Out?

• Damien G. Walter’s Thoughts

  on The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang.

• Alan Dean Foster has an op-ed, Garden

  Variety Javelinas, about Arizona’s new immigration law. [via Locus Online]