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- A recent podcast interview.  We went off in some directions I don’t ordinarily go.  I did the interview in the basement underneath my favorite coffee shop, and right at the end there, the battery on my phone went out.

- A nice review on www.feastofbooks.com.

- Friendly blogwords here.

- Nice words in Lincoln (I’ll be reading there today).

- Bookloons.

- Christian Science Monitor.

And as a reminder, here is the freshly-calibrated Official Sneezing Cow Policy on the Posting of Reviews.

I’ve never quite known what to do about linking to reviews.  When I get a bad review, I’m usually content to let folks discover it without my help.  (One hardly feels compelled to provide coordinates pinpointing the site of one’s personal literary grundie.)  On the other hand, linking to a good review can look a bit, um, self-loving.  I once heard the singer Greg Brown say the only thing worse than agonizing over bad reviews is spending too much time reading your good reviews.

Still, if someone gives of their time to consider and review your work (and these days many reviewers are unpaid), and that person then kindly forwards the review to your attention, it seems an act of snooty disingenuity to feign ignorance. So now and then we’ll link to some reviews, trusting that ultimately you’ll read the books or not read the books, and you will decide for yourself.

This being an Official Policy, it could change at any time.