An open letter to Wikipedia “Dear Wikipedia, I am Philip Roth.”

(Feed-)killer robots In a fittingly sci-fi worthy turn, digital restriction management (DRM) robots, on the hunt for copyrighted material on the web, killed the feed broadcasting this year’s Hugo Awards when the ceremony broadcast clips from winning television shows (totally legally). An aside: Montreal-based writer  Jo Walton won this year’s Hugo for best novel for her book Among Others.

O is for oysters Guess what B is for. A writerly alphabet.

Emily Dickinson grows up Maybe.

Impossible Words Emily Pohl-Weary launched a reading series this weekend at the Academy of the Impossible. The next installation of Impossible Words is September 22 with Mariko Tamaki.