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)!

Michael Trinklein at Chasing Ray: "What was interesting to me was that racism was the main roadblock to adding Cuba as a state. 40 years after the Civil War, most of the statehood discussion centered on the ability of "the negro race" to assimilate."

Nick Burd at Fuse Number 8: " I like it when mysterious things happen in books, so I think that kind of thing will always appear. But I like humor and satire. I don't really think about genre when I write."

Sarah Darer Littman at A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy: "And how cool is this? The city of Buenos Aires has this database where you can look up exactly what species of trees are on each street! I did take one liberty by putting an Ombu tree in a park where there isn’t one in real life, because I’d fallen in love with that tree in the first draft."

Tom Siddell at Finding Wonderland: "My family knows I have a comic and that it is available in books somewhere, but they don't read it and since I don't actually make any money off the comic, the "success" is pretty intangible to anyone not already into webcomics."

Jess Leader at Shaken & Stirred: "It turned the movie went from spare and strained to a Hugh Grant special, and while About a Boy and, um, Music and Lyrics are two of my favorites (hey, it’s about the artistic process), the Montage of Transformation just did not belong Up in the Air. The montage was technically accomplished, but it didn’t fit, and it was encouraging to see another artist murdering his darlings in the name of finding the right tone for his film."

[Post title from Sarah Darer Littman interviewed over A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy!]