The weekly web ramble (1/16)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– Erasing women: the importance of Agent Carter to comic culture

– Science has great news for people who read actual books

<– AUTHOR TALK

Dawn Metcalf on defining moments and what it means to be human

Holly Black explores The Darkest Part of the Forest

Gayle Forman on why we need to talk about depression

Curtis Sittenfeld shares 24 things no one tells you about book publishing

Justina Ireland responds to the Stacey Jay kickstarter brouhaha

WEB READS –>

Uprooted

– Check out an excerpt from Uprooted by Naomi Novik

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– Read the first seventy pages of Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver

Ignite

– Check out the first twenty pages of Ignite by Sara B. Larson

The Eterna Files

– Read an excerpt from The Eterna Files by Leanna Renee Hieber