Ben Julien, one of my fellow Clarionites has interviewed Trent Jamieson, one of our Clarion South tutors.

The first of Trent’s novels is due out soon.

http://thelongwrite.com/2010/07/20/interview-with-trent-jamieson/

The malcontents from Clarion South Apartment 336 (Ben, Steph, Su Lynn and myself) are proud to announce the arrival of the world’s first 4D blog. (Viewing goggles optional.  Imax version subject to demand).

The Long Write
http://thelongwrite.com/

* More insightful than the Collected Twitter Posts of Jar Jar Binks.

* More controversial than the implementation of decimal time.

* More entertaining than reading a history of object-oriented management strategies written in binary.

* Filled with more Fail than AmazonFail, RaceFail and the Fail Whale combined.

* Now with 20% more monkeys.

For your reading enjoyment we present the wise words and thoughtful thoughts of the unstoppable Sean Williams.

http://thelongwrite.com/2010/02/03/sean-williams-interview-2/

http://thelongwrite.com/2010/02/03/sean-williams-interview-2/

A couple of fun articles on the Guardian about how scary books and movies for children should be.

Maurice Sendak tells parents worried by Wild Things to 'go to hell'

Do you know what today's kids need? Thumb amputation, that's what

A look at how statistics can sometimes be misleading.

http://anilmenon.com/blog/2009/10/simpsons-paradox-in-the-slush-pile.html

The World SF News Blog has an interesting interview with Ashok Banker, an Indian author who has a lot of controversial things to say about the state of science fiction publishing.

http://worldsf.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/exclusive-interview-with-ashok-banker/