Friday Morning LitLinks

New York Books features a brilliant essay by Sam Anderson on Albert Camus and ‘the pleasures of literary obsession.’
Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah’s new collection of stories, An Elegy for Easterly, offer portraits from Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.
The Literary Saloon analyzes the slow-motion train wreck of the Sapir Prize.
New doubts arise in the forensic evidence that indicated remains found in Utah were those of poet and artist Everett Ruess.
One year after its launch, Faber’s POD branch Faber Finds is finding success, with 450 titles and another 550 on tap for the rest of the year.
Jet-setting lover boy and South Carolina governor Mark Sanford loses his book deal.
In the wake of Hoffman and de Botton’s outbursts, Lisa Abeyta offers up some tips to writers on how to “not burn digital bridges.”
The Justice Department makes it official: the investigation into Google Book Search is on.
Peter McEllhenney makes the case that the Harry Potter books may not be great literature, but they’re literature all the same.
Today in Literature: On this day in 1883, Franz Kafka was born in Prague.


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