I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Lauren Beukes, Bridge: ( world hoppers )
Herman Melville, Moby Dick:( yep, never read it before )
Sarah Monette, A Theory of Haunting: ( occult adventures )
Ilona Andrews, ( Kate Daniels-ish )
Emma Newman, Before, After, Alone: ( short stories )
T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge: ( fractured fairy tale )
Lavanya Lakshminarayan, The Ten Percent Thief: ( a different capitalist hellscape )
Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues:( progressive male power fantasy )
Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup: ( new series; I'm in! )
Christopher Rowe, ( fascinating worldbuilding )

Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus: ( overall, I liked it! )

I go up and down on Once Upon a Time (Little Red Riding Hood episode: up up up!), but this vid by beccatoria is everything that is awesome about the show.

Matt Stoller on foreclosure abuses:

Of course, like a good Capitol Hill staffer receiving an incredibly important piece of evidence on a multi-trillion dollar scandal, I was like “this guy is crazy” and quickly got back to working on regulatory reform and surfing the internet. (Unofficial motto of Dodd-Frank: Hey, um, regulators, why don’t you make all the rules and we’ll check out Twitter? Mkay. Also your budget is cut!)

Great article on the new monopolies and how they harm everyone but the richest.

FYFF once again knows my soul: “you’re not a real writer.” (helens78 has a counterpoint that I, being comfortable with contradiction, also find quite compelling!)

( Short stories: gay encounters, horror, Sarah Monette, Neil Gaiman; also Ted Naifeh and supernatural YA )

Hanukah drabble offer: Comment here with one of my fandoms and a prompt and I will try to do at least one drabble a day during Hanukah, which begins Dec. 4. If I am ambitious enough I may try to have one that stands as the shamash and continues eight nights. I do not, however, promise nine on the last night! (Fandoms: Buffy, Chuck, Firefly, Heroes, Nip/Tuck, Smallville, Supernatural, X-Files, or anything else you think I know and might be willing to try.) ETA: Prompts need not have a holiday/Jewish theme, and drabbles may not either.

( Grab bag: fantasy/horror, hitmen and thrillers, Firefly )