The singer is actually a dude.

Bryan Fuller is like the TV version of Tim Burton (especially, say, Big Fish vs. Wonderfalls or Pushing Daisies), so I'm always surprised that his very excellent work is so habitually killed too soon. Tim Burton is so successful that he's turned into a caricature of himself; I'm glad that Bryan Fuller is able to keep…

Well, wasn't that Dr. Chilton's surgery? Eddie Izzard did call the bucket of organs a "gift basket" for the Chesapeake Ripper. (Not as pretty, to be sure.)

I suppose in the end he got his wish: the show got increasingly surrealistic as the season progressed. I loved that, and it really helped make the point that despite the early nods towards realism, the show isn't terribly concerned with it.

And she was SO charming as Jane. Instantly lovable, the way Jane needs to be.

While I love YA, I don't much mind that they don't cover a lot of it; there are so many books that come out every week, and they can only pick a few. As long as they treat it with respect for what it is, I'm happy - and they've done a good job of that.

I LOVE Twitter, because it's what you make of it. I use it to share ideas and links, as well as to form networks and make friends. It's a social network that's about conversations, really. It's also turned out to be a great professional tool for me, but that's because my industry has taken to Twitter like fish to the…

You're thinking of fantasy books. (Just kidding, GRRM!)

It seriously cannot be said enough how strange and delightful and smart Maureen Johnson is on Twitter. One of those people you should follow even if you have no interest in her stated purpose.

I would not be surprised to learn that Freddie Lounds is a lesbian/bisexual, though there is absolutely no textual support for that at all.

I can't decide if I'm relieved or disappointed that the string of bizarre deaths that runs through all of Bryan Fuller's work was not actually entirely made of his ideas.

Yeah, the references throughout The Hunger Games are basically, "HEY LOOK IT'S GLADIATORS!" Collins named the damn country using the Latin word for bread.

I like that element of it, but the "plot happens to other characters, who then tell the narrator about it" narrative is the laziest way possible to tell a story. About halfway through I realized I was *bored*.

…do they not have EYES?

It's always good to name your work something that people aren't embarrassed to say aloud.

Also, there's only one season of Bunheads thus far, compared to Gilmore Girls's seven, so it's much easier to do.

For a good few weeks there, I was equally (and only) worried about the fates of Hannibal & Bunheads. There are probably ~50 of us in the center of that Venn diagram, and I'm pretty sure we're all here talking about it.

@avclub-e0a1578b57e32929a77892fadf0d0b40:disqus In fact, JK Rowling lost her billionaire status because she gave so much away to charity. She is now merely a hundredmillionaire.

I also work at a literary agency. I know. But publishers ARE capable of ordering a new print run before leaking something that they know will make orders skyrocket, especially when they've managed to keep it secret for probably a year and a half. If new copies are suddenly available in the next week, then I'll agree…

I suspect that if they'd planned it exactly this way, they would've had more than 1000 hardcover copies available in the whole country. You can get an ebook, but a lot of people are going away unhappy with the month-long wait for paper.