Jeff VanderMeer wrote a piece about the difficulties writing and publishing City of Saints and Madmen. Though I've been hearing about him for a while now I've never read anything of VanderMeer's and have to confess that this piece, fascinating as it is, doesn't make me want to rush out and find anything. Apparently Bantam is publishing much of his work over the next couple of years so that maybe that will be time to pick them up.