The weekly web ramble (4/22)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– Cory Doctorow on privacy, facebook, politics and kids

– The New York Times profiles Shaun Tan‘s Wild Imagination

<– AUTHOR TALK

– Scott Westerfeld on how dystopian became became the new paranormal in YA fiction

– Melissa Marr on the end of her Wicked Lovely series

– Katherine Hall Page, author of the Faith Fairchild culinary mysteries, on how bad taste leads to crime

– Stephanie Burgis (very quickly) reads one of her favorite scenes from Kat, Incorrigible:

WEB READS –>

– Check out an excerpt from The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines

– Read The Fox by Malinda Lo, a short story set after the events in Huntress

– Check out Dancing the Warrior, parts one and two, a novella from Marie Brennan, set in the Doppleganger universe

– From Deadline Dames, an excerpt from Jenna Black‘s Dark Descendant

– Read Covehithe, The Guardian’s exclusive short story by China Mieville

– 50 Page Friday: The Lion of Senet by Jennifer Fallon

– Check out the first two chapters of Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh