Post-New Year’s links

David Milofsky of the Denver Post expounds on the joys of litblogs, and naturally includes some of my friends, favorites and other cool customers.

Patrick Anderson’s latest column looks at David Fulmer’s JASS, the continuation of his 1900s-era New Orleans mysteries.

The Globe and Mail’s Alexandra Gill goes to prison in BC…to talk to members of a creative writing program for inmates.

Masha Gessen was a Russian Jewish journalist who left her native country at 14 to move to America, but, as she tells Newsday, returned to search for both grandmothers who stayed behind.

January Magazine’s first review of the New Year is of William Boyd’s new short story collection, FASCINATION.

Suzi Feay of the Independent on Sunday is decidedly underwhelmed by impending Potter-mania, but suggests what to look for in the coming months as a replacement for the juggernaut tome.

The Glasgow Herald’s Rosemary Goring prepares her own “what to expect when you’re looking for books” list for 2005 as well.

Can’t remember all those pesky authors who behaved badly in 2004? Well have no fear, for Bookninja is here to award the Golden Shuriken Awards for Ridiculous Behavior.

And finally, get ready for Playboy, the video game. You can be the evil overlord, er, quasi-Hefner as you sire around a bevy of beauties and shill for Viagra. Of course, no one refuses to listen to me when I explain that Playboy jumped the shark as soon as Kennedy got shot…