What you may have missed this past week:

• How do digital readers affect what we read? (registration required)
• Romance criticism as a field of academic study? Yep.
• Big brain and WriteBlack fave Malcolm Gladwell spoke at the New Yorker Conference recently
• M. Asli Dukan could use some financial help with facilitating the release of Invisible Universe, her documentary about the African diaspora in speculative fiction. Donate if you can.
• Digital media diva Lynne d Johnson gave a talk about how digital media is changing the face of publishing
• Authors, you’re going to have be responsible for your own marketing. Get over it.