A few more links to wrap up the week:

• Writers talk about why Joss Whedon is awesome; I feel all the feelings.
• Win an Apocalypsies book of your choice!
• A new, early work by Hans Christian Andersen found.
• Now I kind of want a sitcom about unlikely buddies Walt Whitman and Bram Stoker.
• Read the book and watch the movie.
• E.B. White’s Maine warms my heart.
• 2012 “best of” lists by the numbers–part 1 and part 2.
• If you have people coming over this holiday season, be inspired by some literary party hosts.