Our friend "Oronte Churm" interviews Philip Graham, who teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The main topic of discussion: Graham's soon-to-be-released nonfiction book, The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon, which is inspired by a recent sabbatical year. Lots of interesting material here, about Portugal, writing about cultures not one's own, "'academia's great fantasy' of living abroad with children," and more.
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Check out my co-worker Joshua Martino's excellent profile of Elizabeth Nunez and her new novel, Anna In-Between (Akashic).
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Poet and veteran Brian Turner anticipates his upcoming travels as the 2010 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholar.
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Sue Fagalde Lick wonders "how much is enough," when it comes to payment for freelance articles.
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Apparently, the Federal Trade Commission has come up with some new guidelines that may affect those of us who blog about and/or review books. Ron Hogan is following this pretty closely over on Galleycat, where he poses the following open questions.
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