Thursday Morning LitLinks
Nylon reports on fashion illustrator Ruden Toledo’s whimsical new covers for three new Penguin Classic Deluxe Editions—Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights and The Scarlet Letter.
Poetry and technology to collide at the Glastonbury music festival.
Porn star and hooker Sunset Thomas writes a novel, inverting the normal process of becoming an author first and then becoming a prostitute.
Chris Anderson speaks out about his plagiarism “screw up”.
“Extraordinary new voice” and former “grass-strimmer, pot-washer, conservatory salesman, bloke holding the board in Leicester Square, and teacher” Edward Hogan has won the £10,000 Desmond Elliott prize for his debut novel, Blackmoor.
Chris Power takes BookSeer for a test drive. Try it yourself here.
The Guardian’s Ewan Morrison bangs out the top 10 literary ménages à trois.
After 10 years, John Grisham finally relents on a movie adaptation of The Testament.
Cathy Young, writing for Politico, refers to Salinger’s lawsuit as a “book banning” case and makes a case for copyright law reform.
Facebook novel blends reality and fiction and is apparently heading for the big screen.
Barnes and Noble hires former eBay exec Jamie Iannone to head up its digital division.
R.I.P. H.B. Gilmour
Today in Literature: On this day in 1857, Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal was published.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:38 am
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