Oh, and here's a relatively old essay from Vikram Chandra entitled "The Cult of Authenticity" which is apt for most countries (including the Philippines) that uses English. The local literature scene is making the same arguments against texts written in English, at how they're less Filipino because of it.
Here's your zen photo for the day, courtesy of Megan Kurashige:
Sweet Macapuno Strings: Gelatinous Mutant CoconutP.S. Check out Yvette Tan's book cover.
Interviews
- Matt Staggs interviews Alexander C. Irvine.
- SF Signal interviews Joe Abercrombie.
- Rae Bryant interviews Jessica Lee.
- Samuel Delany Answers Your Science Fiction Questions!
- Jofie Ferrari-Adler interviews Jonathan Galassi.
- CBC interviews Neil Gaiman (podcast, starts at 56 min.).
- David Steffen interviews Alethea Kontis.
- Rocknroll Reporter interviews Jeffrey Thomas.
- Sean Wallace on Lessons: Original Anthologies and Small Press.
- China Mieville on Five Things Someone Else Should Totally Do and Lovecraft: A Favorite(?) New York Story (video).
- Mishell Baker on Cautiously Expecting: On Creating Life and Fiction at Clarion.
- Rochita Loenen-Ruiz on In Anticipation of Clarion West.
- Nick Mamatas on The Future is Japanese. Really.
- Damien G. Walter on We need more beautiful magazines and Gemmell Award Winner.
- Jim C. Hines on Rape Post and Resources.
- Ernest Hogan on How I Became a Russian Ringtone.
- James Campbell on The Ugly Spirit.
- Jennifer Schuessler on Get a Life, Holden Caulfield.
- John Hodgman roasts President Obama.
- Jeff VanderMeer on Are You Meandering Around a Castle for 200 Pages? Well, Stop That, Suckah!
- David H. Hendrickson on Measuring Progress.
- Jacques Barcia on Optimism in Literature around the World and SF in Particular, part 5: Brazil, “the Country that Could Have Been and Maybe Will”.
- Ransom Stephens on Booking the Future.
- Tomorrow Museum on Why Teenagers Read Better Than You.
- Brian Sanderson on The YA Invasion.
- Brian James on The Greatest Stories Never Told and Genre Police.
- Jo Walton on Packing Books for a Trip.
- Melissa Singer on “I’m thirteen, I’m a girl, and I like fantasy and some science fiction. What should I be reading?”
- James Enge on Comparative Monstrology.
- Rachel Aaron on The One That Worked.
- Sarah Zettel on Writing Fool's War.
- Vonda N. McIntyre on Pitfalls of Writing SF & Fantasy #1.
- Charlie Stross on How I got here in the end, part five: "things can only get better!"
- PJ Nunn on One Hot Summer Night.
- Robin Agnew on Found Around the Store.
- Megan Kurashige on Words That Make Other Kinds of Sense.
- Janet Reid on Here's Why Your Query Got NO today.
- Paula Guran on More Submission Hints.
- Mike Brotherton on A Key Difference Between Science and Science Fiction.
- Robert Jones on Forensics 118: Family Ties.
- Janice Hardy on Gentle Reminders Beat a Slap to the Head.
- Proposed Web tax rankles local businessman (including Amazon).
- Table of Contents: Jabberwocky 4.
- Special KGB reading in July celebrating 25 years of the Clarion West workshop.
- People headline this as either A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library or Ray Bradbury: "To hell with [Yahoo] and to hell with the Internet."
- Thaumatrope open to submissions, Sean Wallace guest editing.
- Gemmell prize for fantasy goes to Polish novel, Blood of Elves.
- Under the Rose Table of Contents.
- IROSF is Looking for Editors! (requires Facebook account to read)
- Kindle’s DRM Rears Its Ugly Head… And It IS Ugly.
- The Interfictions Music Project.
- War Of The Words: New Rules And Regulations (novel contest).
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