Wednesday Morning LitLinks
The New York Times pulls together the latest on the Salinger lawsuit. Not much new here, but a decent primer if you’re just not hearing about it.
Jackpot! A soldier who bought a leather-bound copy of The Federalist for $7 when he was 16 sells it at auction for $80,000.
Poets reveal the strangest places they’ve ‘done it’.
Salon follows up on the Wisconsin book-burning brigade (previous AuthorScoop coverage here).
“Illustration collective” INK throws a book festival for imaginary books. Fun stuff.
Litkicks’ Michael Norris swoons over Proust.
Ulysses “enthusiasts” recreate Joyce’s masterwork on Twitter.
A Tale of Two Book Proposals: Dueling (and very different) biographies of David Foster Wallace compete for market share.
Will Amazon open the Kindle to other eBook formats?
In an effort to “assess the importance placed on name and reputation over quality of writing”, Fourth Estate has set up a fascinating literary challenge by anonymously posting short stories from nine of their writers, including Joyce Carol Oates and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: match the story to the author. Alison Flood has more.
R.I.P. David Bromige
Today in Literature: On this day in 1938, T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone was published as the first volume in what would become the quartet known as The Once and Future King.
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