Sunday Morning LitLinks
The shortlist for the 2009 Orwell Prize takes on an international flavor: Fishing in Utopia by Andrew Brown, Reappraisals by Tony Judt, Stalin’s Children by Owen Matthews, Chinese Whispers by Hsiao-Hung Pai, Descent Into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid and The White War by Mark Thompson.
The Financial Times makes small talk with author Geoff Dyer.
The Guardian’s John Crace and Quin Parker go head-to-head on the debate as to whether video games are literature.
Today in Literature: On this day in 1815, Jane Austen finished Emma, her last novel to appear in her lifetime.
R.I.P. John Hope Franklin
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March 30th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
From the piece on John Hope Franklin:
” . . . Dr. Franklin could not [himself] escape the legacy of discrimination. In a talk he gave in North Carolina . . . he recalled that on the evening before he received the medal at the White House, a woman at a Washington club asked him to fetch her coat, mistaking him for an attendant, and that a man at his hotel had handed him car keys and told him to get his car.”
When that sort of thing becomes a quaint anomaly, then we’ll know we’ve arrived.
March 30th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
indeed