Lunchtime links.

• Free to Be... You and Me forty years later. (via kottke)
• Word Portraits: portraits of authors in their own words. (via BookRiot)
• I don't know if this makes figs not-vegan, but it does kind of make them gross. 
• More on Diana Peterfreund's upcoming Scarlet Pimpernel-retold: "It’s set in the same world as FDSTS (after the Earth was devastated by the Reduction and the wars of the Reduction), and in the same time period as FDSTS (a few generations after healthy children start being born to the Reduced). However… Star-Swept takes place in a different land called New Pacifica, where society responded very differently than the Luddites of FDSTS to the Reduction and the wars." YESSSSSSSSSSSSS.
• A round-up of Bookshelvers Anonymous' fave YA bloggers. Some of them are new to me, so there goes my afternoon. Away I go to do some blogosphere tourism, wheeeeeeeeee!