According to a post from Farah Mendlesohn, Wesleyan University Press is set to publish The Collected Stories of Joanna Russ. I don’t know what the schedule is, but I’d guess late 2006, if they’re in the midst of proofreading / copyediting. If so, a major book for next year.

And, for those interested, you can download all three volumes of Sufjan Stevens’ Hark! Songs for Christmas. Having really liked Come on Feel the Illinoise, I’m enjoying these.

The New Yorker has a good article, “Becoming Mary Poppins” about P.L Travers, her creation and the Disney movie. I only found out a couple years ago that Travers was Australian and am yet to read her novels (so I didn’t know things like Mary Poppins was a shapeshifter, not a nanny), but they sound interesting. I resist claiming her as some kind of beginning of Australian fantasy, or Australian YA literature, if only because she so firmly resisted being Australian. It seems disrespectful somehow.