Saturday Morning LitLinks
From reader Chris Johnson: “The most recent NYRB as several things that would interest you, I think. Julian Barnes wrote an interesting review of Orwell. On the whole it’s positive, but there are a lot of interesting tidbits about the man and his own internal contradictions. The same issue has a good piece on Updike as well as the third part of a series of previously unpublished letters by Norman Mailer.” (Thanks, Chris)
“Read a Book, Get out of Jail”: Leah Price has an interesting essay in the Times on a program that allows criminals to get out of jail and on to probation by attending seminars on literature.
The Guardian’s Adam Thirwell explores why everyone hates Malaparte.
Zoe Heller on creating her unpleasant characters.
Amazon gives rights holders the ability to disable the Kindle’s controversial text-to-speech functionality.
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February 28th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
So, the larger article on the long-view of Orwell prompted me to look up and read, ‘Such, Such Were The Joys’.
That was wonderful. So insightful and even when I could perhaps draw a different conclusion, so transparent in its logic that I could only come away appreciative of the thought that went into it.
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:14 pm
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