The weekly web ramble (7/27)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– NPR wants us to pick the 100 best young adult novels

– The latest Hobbit production blog takes us from Comic-con to the last day of production:

<– AUTHOR TALK

Elizabeth Bear on the problem of balance

Nancy Springer on how she writes a novel

Cassandra Clare on the whitewashing that reared its head during the casting of City of Bones (the movie)

Jackson Pearce takes on Chick-Fil-A, armed with proverbs 

WEB READS –>

– Read the first chapter of Homeland (the sequel to Little Brother) by Cory Doctorow

– Check out the first chapter of The Iron Wyrm Affair by Lilith Saintcrow

– Read an excerpt from Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis

– Check out the first chapter of The Tainted City by Courtney Schafer