Links are good for your heart

Sally Gardner suffers from extreme dyslexia, but as she tells the Guardian, she didn’t let that stop her from writing novels.

The Independent’s Mark Timlin rounds up new crime fiction releases by Steve Martini, Barry Eisler and Alex Barclay, who’s been getting such good buzz that I should probably secure myself a copy pretty soon.

The same paper also offers up a review of Karin Fossum’s latest Inspector Sejer novel, CALLING OUT FOR YOU.

Terry Pratchett gets pissy that JK Rowling “didn’t realize” she was writing a fantasy novel. But I find both sides of this non-feud to be pretty amusing….

Louis Menand looks at Edmund Wilson’s contribution to arts and culture in this lengthy essay for the New Yorker.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee writes about why going to a writer’s conference turned out to be a surreal (and not quite pleasant) experience for Mobylives.

Another day, another incredibly breathless article about THE TRAVELER. I should just stop linking to them, I know, but it’s a slow day….

And finally, Abe Vigoda is alive. Wouldn’t that make an awesome title for a book?