CAAF: Morning coffee

• Ursula K LeGuin’s tough yet clear-sighted review of Jeanette Winterson’s new sci-fi novel, The Stone God. Of the recent spate of literary writers working in genre, LeGuin writes: “I am bothered, though, by the curious ingratitude of authors who exploit a common fund of imagery while pretending to have nothing to do with the fellow-authors who created it and left it open to all who want to use it. A little return generosity would hardly come amiss.”
• The Financial Times‘ Rosie Blau lunches with Winterson at Alastair Little, in London. Winterson is charming; champagne, prawns, risotto and lost bread with honey roast plums are consumed.* (Via Light Reading.)
• Review of Alastair Little.
* Your link-gatherer is currently on a no-sugar, no-booze diet. Expect a continued bounty of food links, lingering appraisal of other people’s meals, etc., until it all goes tits-up with the order of a case of these.