Saturday Morning LitLinks
Poet Benjamin Zephaniah discusses his family values in a new Guardian piece.
Timing is everything: Ian Halperin’s new book, Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson, gets scooped up by a major French publisher.
Iranian author Shirin Nezam-Mafi has been nominated for the 141st Akutagawa Prize, the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Literature, for Shiroi Kami (White Paper), which depicts a romance between two students during the Iran-Iraq war.
Children’s authors and critics share their recommendations for engaging young readers.
The Los Angeles Times’ Elizabeth Mehren profiles 91 year-old romance author Mildred Riley.
Ode to a charity shop: British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy pens a poem for Oxfam’s Bookfest.
And what of book festivals? The Telegraph’s Toby Clements charts the history of literary gatherings.
Andrew Seal, in the midst of his “infinite summer,” explores David Foster Wallace’s “specialist realism.” Exposito reacts.
Today in Literature: On this day in 1862, Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) begin to tell three sisters the story that would become Alice in Wonderland.
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