Here are your links to the SBBT interviews today. Don't forget to check out the Master Schedule for the whole week's links (and quotes)!

Julia Hoban at Chasing Ray: "I met this man at his apartment, and I must confess I was most disconcerted when I saw that not only was he old enough to be my father, but short enough to be my infant. We had less than nothing to talk about, but he did have a copy of Tristes Tropiques on his coffee table. Although I had never read it before, I certainly knew of Claude Levi- Strauss, and seized upon it as a lifeline. I owe Claude Levi Strauss a debt of gratitude. Without TT as a topic of conversation I don’t know how I would have made it through the evening!"

Stacy Kramer at A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy: "The story of a girl torn between two groups of friends but feeling a part of neither, who finds a magical recipe box in her grandmother’s closet that can change the social dynamics of middle school. We loved the notion of placing real recipes throughout the book. And, after much discussion about our own middle school experiences, came upon the idea of making the girl a border crosser, a role I played in middle school – a person who can move within various cliques with impunity."

Nancy Bo Flood at Finding Wonderland: "If we want children to choose peaceful alternatives to diminish conflict, I believe we need to allow them a look at what war means. In the United States we are protected from what war really means, except for those who are deployed and their families."

Paolo Bacigalupi at Shaken & Stirred: "So SHIP BREAKER has knife-fights and sea battles and the bio-engineered warbeasts called half-men that are a lethal mix of tiger and dog and hyena and human, because those are the things that make me geek out, and also aren't really celebrated in literature so much."

Sarah Kuhn at Bildungsroman: "guess the biggest challenge was convincing some of my fellow journos that I was for real: yes, I know just as much about X-Men continuity as you do. Yes, I've watched every episode of the original Star Trek just as many times as you have. Yes, I am familiar with this whole "organic web-shooters" debate. Yes, yes, yes."

Jenni & Matt Holm at Hip Writer Mama: "Also, we had shared an apartment in NYC (a studio apartment, no less) for a few months, and if we could survive that, we could survive anything."

[Post title taken from Paolo Bacigalupi 's interview at Shaken & Stirred]