Blog in Exile: Random News & Links for 6/27

The Oregon Literary Review has a long section on Manly Wade Wellman, with two interviews (with David Drake and Night Shade Books' Jeremy Lassen), two Wellman stories, and more. [via Locus Online]

The Haskell Free Library and Opera House may just be the only library in the world to straddle an international border -- half of it is in the US, and half in Canada. [via Reading Copy]

Jeff VanderMeer reports for the Amazon Blog about this past weekend's American Library Association conference.

John Scalzi has had four of his best and most fannish Whatever posts translated into Japanese so that local Hugo voters from this year's Worldcon (Nippon 2007) can read his Best Fan Writer-nominated work in their native language.

Jeff Somers (author of The Electric Church) shows us the horror that is compulsory blogging.