sunday short stack

"Telepathy and clairvoyance play a part in every love story." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

• Margaret Atwood offers 10 editing tips for your fiction manuscript.
• The Spirit Awards announce their nominees for 2009.
• Classic art + graffiti = The Graffiti Ren 2 Contest
• "My MFA Workshop Responds to My Twitter Status Updates"
• Bored? Make all 48 recipes for your favorite LA restaurant dishes.
• Holiday dating? Guys and girls to avoid...
• The bands of tomorrow: SXSW 2010
• 50 Things a Writer Shouldn't Do

End of the year "Best of" lists are piling up. A random selection:

• Favorite Fiction of 2009 from the LA Times
• Said the Gramophone's Best Songs of 2009
• The Boston Globe's Fiction of the Year
• KCRW DJ Picks for Top 10 Albums of 2009
• Jessa Crispin's Picks for Best Foreign Fiction
• The Barnes & Noble Review's Best Books of 2009
  
• Gorilla vs. Bear's Albums of 2009