We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful

Here's what some of the other bookbloggers have been up to lately:

• Mark Sarvas and Maud Newton guest edited a "self-made" issue of Boldtype.

• In addition to joining me on the Galleycat rolls, Sarah Weinman just made her first short story sale to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Plus she celebrated her second blogging anniversary yesterday.

• Laila Lalami has a short story collection out (Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits), and now she's gone and interviewed Salman Rushdie for her local newspaper.

• Lizzie Skurnick has published her first collection of poems, Check-In, and she's already read from it on public radio. She'll be reading more at a gallery in Baltimore next month.