Afternoon links.
- At 100 Scope Notes: 2012 Children’s Lit: The Year in Miscellanea.
- Remember Simon and his chalk drawings?
- At the Hub: Vote Now for the 2013 Readers’ Choice List.
- Also at the Hub: a round-up and discussion of whitewashed YA covers. Relatedly, let's take a moment to give the team behind Pinned another standing ovation for creating such a fantabulous cover.
- In the hopes of closing a decades-old cold case, Sarasota Detective Kim McGath wants to exhume the bodies of Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, the men profiled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
- Rick Riordan interviewed at the Guardian: "I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure – it is the hidden teacher in me."
- First look at Austenland! (There's an image from Ender's Game in the same slideshow, but you may've already seen it. And here's one from Beautiful Creatures. I didn't even know about the Del Toro Pinnocchio. And is it wrong that I'm totally planning to watch Bates Motel?)
- At Kirkus: Best Teen Books of 2012. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl! YESSSSSSSSSSSSS.
- Author Scott Lynch, responding to a critic's email: "What you're really complaining about isn't the fact that my fiction violates some objective "reality," but rather that it impinges upon your sad, dull little conception of how the world works. I'm not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all. I'm not writing history, I'm writing speculative fiction. Nobody's going to force you to buy it. Conversely, you're cracked if you think you can persuade me not to write about what amuses and excites me in deference to your vision, because your vision fucking sucks." Annnnnnd now I want to read everything he's ever written.
- Reading Rainbow, remixed:
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