Saturday Morning LitLinks
Holden Caulfield is resurrected in a new, unauthorized sequel to The Catcher in the Rye. Stuart Evers says, “No thanks.”
Keats goes to Cannes… sort of.
“Angels and Demons” star Stellan Skarsgard says Dan Brown is a “terribly bad writer.”
Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas takes home the Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book for The Slap.
The Times looks at New Jersey’s connection to Pulitzer-winning poet, W.S. Merwin.
Today in Literature: On this day in 1939, Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust was published.
AuthorScoop
May 16th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Unauthorized sequel?
What the hell is that?
This is a clear violation of Salinger’s copyright.
“Unauthorized is fine for biographies and editorial works but it is simply not applicable to protected works of fiction.
John David California is best advised to lawyer up.
May 16th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
please see the update above. i find the whole thing weirdly disturbing.