Linkola.

•  From a profile of Sherman Alexie at the Guardian:

Stephen King's Carrie (1974), about a high-school misfit with telekinetic powers, revealed to him the "eventual power of being an outsider: that which makes you a freak when you're 12 makes you magical when you're 24".

•  I've been meaning to post a link to this for a while, so you've probably already seen it:  Con artists pretending to be authors scamming money off of bookstore employees.  Because bookstore employees make soooo much money?

•  Plagiarism:  The Lighter Side.

•  Seconded.

• That's all for now, as I ripped my thumbnail in half (horizontally) yesterday and I'm, like, DYING.  More later if I survive.