I’m on the Guardian book podcast again this week, discussing literature of the apocalypse as the Angry Volcano God put us all in that frame of mind. At the end I call Kraken ‘H.P.Lovecraft via J.G.Ballard’. Not sure if that will make it into the final review, but it certainly has a ring to it!

Elsewhere on the interwebs…

Slightly Foxing reveals her taste for choking the fiction chicken.

Paul Charles Smith makes a cogent response to my article on meaning and fantasy