Interview Roundup: Looking Out My Back Door

The Elegant Variation caught an interview with Michelle Huneven at LAist (which caught me offguard at first, because I thought it was titled "The LAST Interview") in which she explains the humble origins of her most recent novel:

"I set Jamesland in the Atwater/Los Feliz/Glendale area because that’s where I lived at the time. I’m a lazy researcher and this made research very easy for me. I walked all over the place there--not only along the river but all over Griffith Park. I saw these places season after season, year in and year out, and formed an intimate connection with them, and intimacy is always a good thing to write about, even when it’s with wrecked rivers and modest neighborhoods."

BoingBoing co-editor Cory Doctorow talks to O'Reilly Network (and, no, that's not a euphemism for Fox News) about what's going on with his science fiction writing. He's up for a Nebula, you know! And his short story "Anda's Game" is going to be in this year's BASS anthology. But mostly I'm looking forward to Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, because "a fantasy novel about Wi-Fi" is exactly what I need to read.

Over in France, Simon Hattenstone (Guardian) catches up with Robert Crumb, because apparently they've gone nuts for him in England, with a fine arts retrospective, a cinema series, and Lord only knows what else.