Pratchett, Disch, and the Espresso

Two terrific profiles/interviews of Terry Pratchett:

This one over at Waterstone’s conducted by Neil Gaiman, which makes it feel more like two old friends having a chat, which I’d be wiling to bet is what it felt most like,

And this one at the Daily Mail, which pretty much turns out to be Pratchett on God, or the complete lack thereof.

Also, Alex Clark of the Telegraph discusses the much heralded but still pretty much nonexistent vaporware that is the Espresso machine. I’ve been reading about this fucking thing for, like, three years now. I’d like to use one now, thanks.

And finally, RIP sci-fi/horror writer/critic committed suicide on July 4. I’ll admit he was an author I never ended up getting much around to; I only read one of his novels, The M.D., but I read it at the time in my life when I was switching back to going by “Will” and “William” instead of “Bill” (which lasted from 8th grade through sophomore year of college). My then-roommate gave me the book because one of its characters did precisely the same thing.