Goin’ through the link motions

Nelson DeMille is interviewed in Newsday about his new novel, a fictional examination of the TWA Flight 800 crash and what might have caused the disaster to happen.

Christopher Rice reviews Peter Straub’s new literary horror novel IN THE NIGHT ROOM and explains why the combination of good writing and good suspense works oh so well for the longtime writer.

Who’d have thought it? But GILEAD, Marilynne Robinson’s long-awaited second novel, actually gets a bad review from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Actually, this makes me more inclined to read it–uniform reviews across the board often make me wary….

The Sydney Morning Herald’s Simon Caterson looks at the phenomenon of plagiarism, which certainly seems to get a fair amount of press, and for good reason.

So what does Ian Rankin do on his summer holidays? He reveals all to the Times’ Lizzie Enfield, as there are difficult challenges in deciding on what to do and where to go.

Interviewer extraordinaire Craig McDonald meets Valerie Hemingway and goes far more in depth about her fascinating life in this extensive Q&A.

Now, maybe it’s me, but I think J-Franz (sorry, I can no longer refer to him by his full name; he should really live up to the moniker and start DJing somewhere in the LES by now, or perhaps start a line of cosmetics) manages to take a perfectly interesting profile of Charles Schulz and Charlie Brown and make it, well, dull and kinda self-absorbed.

Speaking of dull, the Christian Science Monitor presents their Fiction Best-of List for the year. And I admit I’m being unfair, but come on, all the usual suspects are present. Surely some off-the-wall choices could have made the N&N list….

And finally, William Shatner: multimedia icon. I’ve heard a couple of tracks from the new CD and they are….actually kind of interesting. Wouldn’t make me go out and buy it though.