Enter you speculative fiction in the inaugural Friends of the Merrill Collection Short Story contest! The Merrill Collection is the Toronto Public Library’s excellent collection of science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction. The 3 winners will receive cash prizes. Find out more, and enter, here.
Take heart writers and procrastinators, Norton Juster wrote his masterpiece, The Phantom Tollbooth (illustrated by Jules Feiffer), when he should’ve been writing something else. Juster tells the story here.
Maurice Sendak displays his unparalled curmudgeonly powers in an interview with The Guardian.
Listen to Fresh Air‘s interview with Maurice Sendak about his secret stash of work, death, this time that is for him and him alone and his favorite lines in his new book, Bumble-ardy
You know that movie with the guy who sees some pattern everywhere? Community‘s Dan Harmon is that guy. (via @glinner)
Antenna examines the case of Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy) and why he’s deleting the Twitter version of his “brash online persona”.
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The Cultural Gutter 