Geek Media Round-Up: June 28, 2010
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Literature
- Interview: The Functional Nerds chat with genre book cover artist & 2010 Hugo nominee John Picacio about creating genre covers, how he became an artist, his work with Pyr, monetizing cover art and the future of the genre cover artist.
- Interview: Locus interviews Kit Reed, author of Enclave.
- Can You Have Too Many Books? It’s one of those zen questions, like “what’s the stupidest question you can think of?”
- Could the Hub be the new business model of the future for books and libraries?
- The Guardian discusses Creative writing as literary ‘intervention.’
- The Guardian has compiled a list of The top 100 books of all time that looks like it was written by your English 101 prof.
- Harvard Professors Suggest Summer Reading Picks For Undergrads, but somehow manage to completely omit both Harry Potter and the Twilight Saga.
- Huffington Post suggests how to take librarians off the endangered species list.
- The New York Times takes a look Inside Prison Libraries.
- In Today’s vampire – a needy, neurotic wimp, Neil Gaiman reveals, “My next big novel was going to have a vampire. Now, I’m probably not. They are everywhere, they’re like cockroaches.”
- The Twilight series is cack-handed in execution, bereft of originality, ludicrous in its plots and yet lapped up by hordes. Children’s author Philip Womack asks: if it isn’t the writing, what is it?
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