Elsewheres

• Paul Jessup will send a box of F&SF backissues to the first commenter to the post I'm linking to. This continues the chain I began. Keep an eye on his site for some thoughts on the three issues he's keeping.
  
  
• An interview with John Crowley
  
  
• An interview with Alan DeNiro
  
  
• A new issue of Lone Star Stories is now online.
  
  
• Laila Lalami, author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and blogger of Moorish Girl, writes in The Nation about Muslim women, feminism, and the "burden of pity".
  
  
• Last week was Television week at the LBC. Television was the book that won the vote to be the Read This! title for the quarter. Though the book didn't do much for me, the conversation about it was interesting, particularly the interview with translator Jordan Stump. (And, I assume, the podcast, but I haven't downloaded it yet.)
  
  
• Last year's Ratbastards anthology gets a review at SF Site. I have heard that this year's actually exists, but it's not on the website yet, so check back there hourly until it is, because the table of contents is full of good writers.
  
  
• Deborah Biancotti is the first beneficiary of a new project by Jonathan Strahan, where he offers a podcast of her story "Stealing Free".
  
  
• The young Samuel Beckett was a little twerp.
  
  
• I have no desire to say anything about the controversies over this year's Tiptree Award, but even if I did want to say anything, I wouldn't need to, because Kameron Hurley says it better than I could.
  
  
• Via Kameron, I discovered a group blog she's part of, Feminist SF -- The Blog!
  
  
• Miyazaki, ontology, and baseline reality
  
  
• Jeff VanderMeer gives us permission to fail. At first, I thought it was permission to flail. I scared my cat.