Long-Awaited Round Up

Is Dave Eggers the most influential man in literary circles? I think I'll still say that honor belongs to Oprah.

The argument against Dave Itzkoff gets more ammunition.

Is Science Fiction the last bastion of philosophical writing but suffering under the weight of execrable prose stylists? I think the issue is more nuanced than that, but the original Wired Article on the subject discussed by this MediaBistro article seems more than a little ham-fisted and clumsy.

Strange Horizons is quickly becoming my favorite place to read new fiction on a once-a-week basis. The lastest We Love Deena uses mind control to explore obsessive behavior in a particularly disturbing and entertaining way.

An interview with Jorge Luis Borges, in English for the first time.

RIP Steve Gerber, a man who helped make comics weird and funny again.

There is no old buddy network controlling the literary world, I don't care what you say.

The Internet is a copy machine

Sharon Mesmer and the odd world of Flarf poetry (Full disclosure: Mesmer is a former writing teacher of mine).

What ails the newspaper industry is not the Internet. It is, rather, economics.