Sunday Morning LitLinks
Robert McCrum presents an excellent interview with Irish poet Seamus Heaney.
Joe Queenan discusses the intricacies of dealing with “literary escorts” on book tours. Jennifer Schuessler briefly examines the indie bookstore tour of Valeria’s Last Stand author Mark Fitten, who’s blogging about his 100 stops across the nation.
The Creative Penn champions the Mind Map.
Speaking of maps, here’s a cool (in that Haight-Ashbury sort of style) literary map of San Francisco.
Writer tortured in Iran as “British spy”.
Ian Rankin investigates Shakespeare’s masterpiece to determine if MacBeth was set up.
Never-before-published Donald Westlake novel from the early 60s to be released next Spring (via Sarah Weinman).
Today in Literature: On this day (or thereabouts) in 1374, Petrarch died.
AuthorScoop
July 19th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Great links, as always. The Literary Map of San Francisco link in particular helped me remember that as a poet I’m trying to bring a place from out of memory and into the pages of poetry, a different kind of map.
Oscars last blog post..I’m high, low, east, west/All over your map
July 19th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
thanks for stopping by, oscar. poked around on google this morning and also found an interesting literary map of manhattan: http://bit.ly/NWAlw
July 20th, 2009 at 5:53 am
Hi William - thanks so much for the link - glad you enjoyed the mind map!
Joanna
Joanna Penns last blog post..Dark Fantasy as a Writing Genre: What is it anyway?
July 20th, 2009 at 6:50 am
thanks for stopping by, joanna, and for all your great work. i’ve added a link to the creative penn in our “friends” section.