Up from the Depths

Boy, nothing like someone giving me a project to do when I'm in the middle of another one. Can you say "project jumping?" I emerge, manic, from poetry wrangling all last night. I dreamed in iambic pentameter. It was not pretty. If you're looking for pretty, via Chicken Spaghetti we find a fabulous interview at Bookslut with poet Natasha Trethewey, whose gifted poetry straddles worlds. Colleen's Booksluts in Training are at the School of Hard Knocks, and this month include a review of Ellen Emmerson White's Long May She Reign, which is steadily making its way to the top of my TBR List!

I'm a bit late to Bottom Shelf Books' review of Tuesday -- but trust me, that book is quite surreal enough for the political landscape of Super Tuesday!! I remember just giggling the first time I read it -- ah, the night of flying frogs -- and thinking that the creators were on that wonderful, mind-tripping substance called creativity. It's a REALLY weird, beautiful book full of possibilities that can fit in a weird, beautiful world full of the same.

Via SF Signal, a Jonathan Stroud (of The Bartimeus trilogy fame) interview at a French SF website. (No worries: it's in ENGLISH.)

Today's 28 Days Later is a favorite in the blogosphere, Janice Harrington, who wrote The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County, much loved and discussed by Jules @ Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.

Via Galleycat, it's L Magazine's 4th Annual Literary Upstarts Competition. New Yorkers, start your engines.

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Still Helping a (big) Sister Out: Thanks for all the suggestions for MG books for the Ramona-loving little sister. Someone suggested graphic novels, and that really sparked some ideas. Now I'm looking for MG books with differently-abled protagonists. Anyone? Thanks in advance.