A harrowing interview with How to Sell author Clancy Martin is up at the Torpedo blog.
In the Confessional
Hear what everyone has to say but don’t listen to anyone (except me).
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door author Etgar Keret shares “Ten Rules for Writers” with Rookie.
Everything That Rises Must Be Filmed
Recommended Listening: this episode of the Ryder + Flye podcast in which Jason Diamond and Margaret Eby discuss Southern Catholicism, 70s cinema, and why it's so darn hard to make Flannery O'Connor's stories work on the screen.
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The David Foster Wallace Conference
The Howling Fantods live-blogged last week's DFW conference at CUNY.
Arab Authors on Twitter
If you woke up this morning and thought, "You know, I could use more Arab authors on my Twitter feed," then boy do I have the link for you.
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Immigrant Song
Why are Americans so enamored by immigrant fiction but rarely read anything in translation? David Naimon and Gary Shteyngart discuss this and more in the latest Between The Covers podcast. Shteyngart's latest book, Little Failure, was part of our 2014 book preview.
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Here Are Your Hugo Winners
The 2017 Hugo Award winners were announced in Helsinki, reports io9. For the second year in a row N.K. Jemisin came away with the best novel prize for her latest, The Obelisk Gate, and Ursula K. Le Guin (whom we interviewed a few years back) took "best related work" for her collection Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016.
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Capote Quiz
The OUP's blog has created a Truman Capote quiz. The idea is to match the author's quotation with its literary victim.