Holy shit, Dan Wickett emailed us news that Bookdwarf favorite (and favorite among many I am sure) Carrie of Tingle Alley is mentioned in the Atlantic Monthly‘s fiction issue!

Radio Open Source will be hosting none other than Bookdwarf favorites TEV and Kevin Smokler (who’s appearance at my store I recorded and I swear I will post soon. The technology is a bit beyond me.) They will be confronting Steve Wasserman, former editor of the LA Times Book Review, which I assume will end with some tears and maybe some gore. Or maybe just handshakes all around.

I forgot to mention earlier that if you watch this vidlit promoting M.J. Rose’s upcoming The Halo Effect, $5 will be donated to Reading is Fundamental. This is a great way to get kids some books, so do it. It just takes a click.

Kevin Smokler is in town promoting Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times and will be appearing at my store in a few hours. I’ve brought my trusty digital mini-recorder, so once I get the file down to manageable size, I will post it. It should be a great event and I’m looking forward to meeting him.

Ed linked to this interview (part 1 of I don’t know how many) with China Mieville. I just finished The Scar a weekend or 2 ago, the second book of his I’ve read now. I am now a big fan of Mieville and am looking forward to reading The Iron Council, the paperback of which will be available on 7/26/05. Can’t wait.

My man Robert Birnbaum speaks with Elizabeth Gaffney, author of Metropolis at the Morning News.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Dan Wickett’s foray into blogging. His brand new Emerging Writer’s blog has much to offer (he’s already putting me to shame with his many posts) and I am glad to congratulate him on his new endeavor.

Time magazine has named the Literary Saloon one of the 50 Coolest Websites. I find them an invaluable source of information on books. They post daily (unlike myself) and their blog content is top notch. Congratulations to them.

I love Patricia Storms work. Here she pokes fun at everything in the publishing world, including litbloggers (okay, the Litblog Co-op in particular. Ouch.)

This is why I love blogs—an earnest discussion on sentimentality in fiction on TEV’s site.