Friday Morning LitLinks

Seamus Heaney suggests looking beyond the UK’s borders for the new Oxford poetry professor.

The Antiquarian Booksellers Association continues the process of undoing the damage caused by the thefts of 71 rare books from Sir Evelyn de Rothschild’s library by former ABA president David Slade.

Japanese publisher Shinchosha forced to increase first print run of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 after fans snap up copies.

And the winner of the Urdd Eisteddfod’s poetry contest is… no one.

GalleyCat gets an exclusive look at BE Book’s $199 e-book reader.

Acclaimed Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa detained in Venezuela and warned against speaking out against Chavez.

Today in Literature: On this day in 1914, the first installment of Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology appeared, two years before the full collection in book form.

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