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Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Feb. 1st)

Looking for some Sunday reading? Here are some literary links from around the web that you might have missed:
The secret to getting published is something most writers don’t want to hear
An interesting map of which European countries publish the most books
Laura van den Berg talks to Jeff VanderMeer about the weirdness of Florida
Chipotle burrito packing fiction is back with work from Neil Gaiman, Aziz Ansari, Amy Tan and more
Think you’ve had a bad hangover? Try one of these dangerous fictional cocktails
The Toast lists how to tell if you are in a soft science fiction novel
Why Game of Thrones is now certain to overtake George R. R. Martin’s books
Gawker picks the 50 best first sentences in literature
They’ve finally found Cervantes’s coffin (we wrote about the search a few years ago)
Finally, at io9 the truth about books, money, and not quitting your day job
