At Big Think! This new website gives you access to "hundreds of hours of direct, unfiltered interviews with today's leading thinkers, movers and shakers." Listen to folks like New Yorker editor David Remnick, former poet laureate of the U.S. Billy Collins and actress and author Anna Deavere Smith -- and post your own questions and comments.

These blogs focus on all things related to the short story genre. Hey, if Nathanial Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway cut their teeth on short stories, why can't you?

I Read a Short Story Today

The Short Story Website

Luna Park

Five Chapters

The website Copyblogger asks business writers, "who better than Hemingway to emulate?" Sure, you're penning a white paper, not For Whom the Bell Tolls. But we can all learn from Hemingway's mastery. Here's how Copyblogger distills it.

Check out these blogs, as one of them breathlessly urges, for "cutting-edge copywriting tips, tricks and tested techniques to get you higher response, more sales and increased profits!" Yes!

World Copywriting Blog

The Copywriter Underground

Copywriting Blog

The Copywriter's Crucible

"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" On the World Wide Web, that's wherefore! Teaching Shakespeare, studying Shakespeare or just interested in the Bard's classics? Check out these websites:

Shakespeare Online

Everything Shakespeare

The Hamlet Site

Shakespeare and Food

Jeff Prucher, the science fiction dictionary editor we interview in this week's "Behind the Dictionary" feature, recommends these websites:

Tenser, Said the Tensor "frequently touches on the subject of language and science fiction."

Suzette Hayden Elgin's The Linguistics and Science Fiction Newsletter

The Oxford English Dictionary's Science Fiction Citation Project