Friday Morning LitLinks
Entertainment Weekly reposts its commissioned drawing of Thomas Pynchon, based on his 1955 high school yearbook photo. The drawing was an attempt by forensic artist Stephen Mancusi to project what the reclusive author might look like.
Meanwhile, The Complete Review stubs out its page for reviews of Pynchon’s highly anticipated Inherent Vice.
The academic book world meets Hollywood and devolves into a literary war of words.
Publishers Weekly reports that Publishers Weekly is for sale.
“Jeff Bezos ate my homework.”: Student sues Amazon over deleted Orwell text which rendered his electronic notes useless.
Alison Flood comments on the first review of Nabokov’s The Original of Laura, which appears today in Publisher’s Weekly (read the review here).
The Daily Beast launches its book club, kicking it off with 2008 Booker winner Aravind Agida.
Today in Literature: On this day in 1485, William Caxton printed Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur.
AuthorScoop
July 31st, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Ha! I saw Sally Jenkins on The Daily Show just yesterday (I believe it was recorded from Wednesday night) promoting the book in controversy in the Hollywood piece above. I thought she seemed quite desperate to play up the romance angle, to the point I noticed it last night, having no knowledge of the shake up going on. It seemed out of place and rushed. Now that makes a little more sense.