New-ish type stuff (otherwise known as a link post)

Maureen Johnson is a very dangerous—and now banned!—woman.

The NY Times would like you to get your Shakespeare on (and wish the Bard a belated Happy Birthday). Yay, Shakespeare! Sadly this does not make the almost five hour version of King Lear I sat through any more palatable, but maybe I’ll blame the failure on the production.

Fuse #8 makes it official (at the invite of Roger Sutton, who may be my new blog crush) with her field notes on Blogging the Kidlitosphere.

The AV Club gives us the “15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will.” Indeed.

I’ve just discovered that my favorite beer store has a blog! A beer blog! Of course this totally ties in with books and reading…aren’t most great writers drunks?

Anna Genoese, an editor formerly with Tor, has a great post with links on World building.

Dorchester and Marjorie Lui (who is an impossibly lovely person) are doing a buzz marketing campaign to promote Lui’s newest book. If you’re interested in a free book from a woman with a clear—and lyrical—voice, go check it out.

And now I’m off to work. Really. I mean it. I’m getting my butt off the couch. Now.

Dear lord, if it is this hard for me to get there at 7:30, I can only imagine what my 6 am shifts are going to feel like later this week. Damn you, Kentucky Derby!