What the authors are blogging: Scalzi, Gessen, Fry
Keith ("All The Sad Young Literary Men") Gessen, who knows something about Russia, weighs in on the Russia-Georgia conflict. Plus, he's reading tonight in Boston and Tuesday in NYC.
Wil ("Just a Geek") Wheaton, who knows something about "Star Trek," blogs about the enthusiastic response to his story in the new Star Trek manga. Also, he's got a broken rib or two.
Stephen ("The Liar") Fry geeks out over software that turns voicemail to text.
Duane ("Severance Package") Swierczynski is excited that his book has been optioned by Lionsgate and he's co-writing the screenplay: His one "diva" request, he says, is some Loverboy over the end credits.
Tayari ("The Untelling") Jones may die if she doesn't get her hands on the new book by Toni Morrison, "A Mercy."
John ("The Last Colony") Scalzi is funny: "At this very second, 'The Last Colony' being #3 on the Amazon SF list, behind 'Fahrenheit 451' and 'The Road.' Stupid Pulitzer Prize winners, always in my way."
Can you believe it? Laura Albert -- the woman who created JT LeRoy -- has contacted Janice "Girlbomb" Erlbaum, claiming that they were roommates in a NY group home way back when.
Diarist Samuel Pepys, who's been dead for 343 years, took a lovely summer's-end yacht tour with friends, resting on velvet cushions and watching out for a meteor.
-- Carolyn Kellogg
Photo credits (clockwise): Stephen Fry by Steve Forrest/Rex Features; Keith Gessen by Carolyn Cole for the L.A. Times; John Scalzi; Laura Albert from the cover of the LA Weekly; Samual Pepys; Tayari Jones by Kleopatra Jones via Flickr.
You said: "Stephen ("The Liar") Fry geeks out ..."
Is it possible that you were referring to James Frey with the liar comment, or has Stephen Fry been lying about something that isn't highlighted on his Wikipedia page?
Posted by: Croanoke | August 18, 2008 at 04:03 PM
Croanoke: I'm pretty sure I got my Fry/Freys right -- Wikipedia does note that Stephen Fry's first novel is "The Liar."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry#Literature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Liar
Posted by: Carolyn | August 18, 2008 at 04:16 PM
Carolyn is correct - and THE LIAR is very, very funny (though my favorite Fry book is still MAKING HISTORY.)
Posted by: Sarah | August 18, 2008 at 06:57 PM
Toni Morrison's A Mercy is terrific. But then again, what do you expect from the Nobel Prize winner?
Posted by: Kevin | August 19, 2008 at 07:56 AM
No "claimed" about it -- Laura Albert really was my roommate. I was just too stoned for too many years to put it together.
Posted by: Janice Erlbaum | August 19, 2008 at 03:34 PM