Something of a quiet week around here at BSC Review in terms of quantity, though higher than sometimes on the always-intriguing interviews and guest spots. But for all of you who were too busy watching football, catching all the mid-season finales of your favorite shows, or just enjoying the lovely fall weather to see it all, don’t worry! I’ve got your weekly re-cap of all our original content this week, the cheat-sheet to allay your fears that you might have missed something awesome.
Interviews
The Wizards of the Coast blog tour continued here with a Q&A session between BSC and R.A. Salvatore
Keith Rawson has a timely (and fabulous) interview with each of the collaborators behind Tower, Reed Farrel Coleman and Ken Bruen
BSC’s reprinting of Victor Gischler’s World’s Worst Interview series continues with Christopher Moore
Book Reviews
The Nerd of Noir is back to discuss his take on Ian Rankin/Werther Dell’edera’s Dark Entries and reflect on how his standards affect his judgment of books
Brian reviews the Jerusalem File by Joel Stone, which he calls the best book about Jerusalem since Graham Joyce’s Requiem
Damon Cap raves about the latest book in the Forgotten Realms series, The Ghost King by R.A. Salvatore
The Nerd of Noir’s turn of disappointing reads finally came to an end with the Ken Bruen/Reed Farrel Coleman collaboration, Tower
The Week in Television
Katelin makes another visit to Wysteria Lane and its Desperate Housewives with “Never Judge a Lady by Her Lover”
Mark is back with Mad Men season 3, episode 9, “Wee Small Hours”
Scott Parker checked out CSI: Miami‘s “In Plane Sight,” which he said was an obvious Bernie Madoff reference
Gerald So has the latest The Big Bang Theory episode, “The Pirate Solution”
Castle just keeps getting better and better, as “Fool Me Once” turned out to be my favorite episode yet
Gerald So brings us up to speed on the week’s NCIS episodes, “Good Cop, Bad Cop” and NCIS: Los Angeles’ “Search and Destroy”
Glee takes a step back this week, to good effect in Matt Cibula’s eyes, with episode 1.07, “Throwdown”
The Vampire Diaries did an awesome job going back in time to show us the first half of the tragedy of the Salvatore brothers in “Lost Girls”
Gerald So thought Bones’ “The Night at the Bones Museum” was a good way to break the season for its mid-autumn hiatus, and that Psych also did an excellent job with its mid-season finale “Shawn Takes a Shot in the Dark”
Damon Cap is back with more Wizards of Waverley Place and their official “Halloween” episode
Music Reviews
Matt Cibula thinks Speed Caravan might be a frontrunner for World Album of the Year with Kalashnik Love
Columns
Jan-ken-pon is back with another Classic G.I. Joe re-read, this time issue #3, “The Trojan Gambit”
Keith Rawson has a special Bourchercon installment of Short Thoughts on Short Fiction this week with Volume 15, featuring stories from special guests at mystery’s premiere convention
Eli’s Plot Twist takes a knife to the gut of Punisher MAX #75
Irregular Contributors
Special thanks to the following professionals who were kind enough to add their sugar to the BSC devil’s food cake this week:
John Brown, whose first novel debuts this month, shares some insight into his inspiration for the story with How go Get Ideas: Talk to Cows
Sharon Shinn guest blogs for us about the joys of disappearing into a good book and the woes of not having enough time to read other people’s books with Escaping into Fiction
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