The fabulous Cynthia Leitich Smith interviews my favorite scholar, Leonard S. Marcus, who has turned out a host of amazing books about the history and art of children’s literature, including Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom (he has a great compilation of commentary about her in the current Horn Book issue, btw), The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, and Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon, to name a tiny sampling of my favorites (read: the ones I’ve read so far).
io9 has a good, trivia-filled tribute post on Gary Gygax, the Dungeons and Dragons creator who passed on this week. I am utterly charmed by all the personal stories everywhere about how D&D changed people’s lives; keep it up.
Ghostbusters! (Via Jenny D.) Also known as the movie most quoted in my daily life.