China Miéville recorded a podcast with Lapham’s Quarterly editor Aidan Flax-Clark.
Miéville in Conversation
He’s at a Loss
Guess which famous novelist and new Twitter user got 19,000 retweets for the following: “On Twitter at last, and can't think of a thing to say. Some writer I turned out to be.” (Hint: his last name rhymes with “sing.”)
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Duo of Thrones
Tonight, we offer A Game of Thrones, prepared two ways: for beginners, and for experts. Bon appetit.
The Book Depository Map
For book voyeurs, the Book Depository has a live, real-time map of people actually buying books from them across the world. (via Guardian's Book Blog)
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New DFW
An excerpt from David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel, The Pale King, appears this week in The New Yorker. It's good.
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“YA fiction has blossomed outside the literary world’s prestige economy.”
In response to an article in the Atlantic observing that women dominate the world of YA fiction, Laura Miller wonders whether men avoid and women embrace YA fiction for the same reason: it offers little prestige.
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The Peculiar Science of Hating The Beatles
At The Vulture, Nitsuh Abebe explains in seven steps how to do the impossible: convincingly hate The Beatles. It's not easy, by the looks of it.