All the Links that Are My Life

Sorry for the silence around here lately. Here are some places that haven't been silent...

• Indian writers and intellectuals protest Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which "prohibits sexual relations between men as well as other 'unnatural' acts".
  
• David Thomson on Surrealism and the Black Dahlia murders. (via Dan Green)
  
• Science fiction criticism and New Historicism.
  
• Jeff VanderMeer is now officially a slut.
  
• Gwenda Bond on Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer.
  
• Author2Author: Helen Boyd & Kate Bornstein.
  
• Adam Kirsch on Hart Crane. (via The Page)
  
• Questions for (and answers by) Laird Hunt.
  
• Laird Hunt creates a soundtrack for The Exquisite.
  
• A conversation about Theodora Goss's In the Forest of Forgetting.
  
• Tony Hoagland: "Fragment, Juxtaposition, And Completeness: Some Notes And Preferences"
  
• Ban more books!!!
  
• A profile of Doris Lessing.
  
• The invaluable Pinky's Paperhaus has moved.
  
• An interview with M.T. Anderson.
  
• Science Fiction Biology: A Blog. (via Torque Control)
  
• The Mississippi Review's "Postmodern Pulp" issue includes "The Bloodied Woman" by Nick Mamatas, which not everybody appreciates.
  
• New Wave Fabulists in The Boston Globe.
  
• David Byrne on Sufjan Stevens. (via Alex Ross)
  
• This Boing Boing story about readers helping Robert Anton Wilson might go a little ways toward restoring your faith in people.
  
• Clare Dudman: 5 Things Feminism Has Done for Me.
  
• A Primer to Gender.
  
• Scott McLemee on Battlestar Galactica.
  
• Ron Silliman on Battlestar Galactica's third season opener.
  
• Ed Champion on Battlestar Galactica's third season opener.
  
• Waggish on Joanna Russ.
  
• "The Great Satan vs. The Axis of Evil": Books About Iran.
  
• What Poems and Code Have in Common. (via Out of the Woods Now)