- Katherine Dunn, the genius who wrote Geek Love, will be at the inferior 4+1 the week of May 11 taking questions and things. Yay!
- Another rousing endorsement for Cecil’s Beige, which I really will post about at length sometime soon.
- More writing wisdom from Joe Schreiber, much appreciated by those of us in drafty, revisiony hell: It seems to me that even if you’re just starting out — maybe especially then — this commitment to quality, page after page, seems at least as important as the amount of published material. Yes, you ought to write a lot. Yes, you want to make an impact in the reader’s consciousness. Yes, you ought to work hard and seriously and produce, produce, produce. But at the end of the day, when you have the thing that you’re going to take out into the world as a reflection of your heart, your ambition, the height of your powers — in a word, your soul — you owe it to yourself to make it the best you can be. And be sure. Because even if nobody else knows, you’ll know.
- Toni Schlesinger on the imaginary inhabitants of display apartments. (Via Jenny D.) (Note: I had to do print view to be able to get this on a background I could read.)
- So, Veronica Mars is
probablydead and Kristen Bell’s a Gossip Girl. Huh. Updated: Not that the show’s been that great this season, but still sad. And what a terrible, unclassy way for the network to "inform" Rob Thomas.
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I’ve missed an episode or two since it came back from that insanely extended hiatus, but this was, by and large, my favorite season of Veronica Mars. Lots of people seemed upset by the whole idea of ditching season-long mystery arcs — as if that’s what the show was about, as if the resolution of last year’s mystery wasn’t pretty disappointing and arbitrary. I’m genuinely sorry to see it go, and you’re right: that was a lousy way to let Rob Thomas know.