Thursday Morning LitLinks
Literary Halloween costumes catch on.
A blast from the past, courtesy of Saul Bellow.
No longer content to crank out three novels a day, Danielle Steel turns to blogging.
Socialite sisters spar over allegations of chicklit theft.
Love hurts: Huffington Post writer stabs lover 222 times with a screwdriver.
Gawker takes Toni Morrison’s side in her literary feud with John Updike.
AuthorScoop
October 30th, 2008 at 11:17 am
I’m kind of amazed at how many people think the murder story is hilarious. Although the comment about ’stab-wound counter’ being the worst job title ever did get me in that all-wrong giggle spot.
October 30th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
“The enormous increases in population seem to have dwarfed the individual. So have modern physics and astronomy. But we may be somewhere between a false greatness and a false insignificance. At least we can stop misrepresenting ourselves to ourselves and realise that the only thing we can be in this world is human. We are temporarily miracle-sodden and feeling faint. . . ”
This is so true, beyond even true. . . and Lord, it’s painful.