Saturday Morning LitLinks
The Daily Mail takes a walk on the wild side with Somerset Maugham.
Tim Martin praises Faber & Faber’s re-issue of Samuel Beckett’s plays and prose.
“Characters of size”? I don’t mean to sound insensitive, but when did I miss the coining of this new jewel? Anyway, teen literature seems to be trending towards positive depictions of them.
Frank Mundo offers up a primer for those ready to dip a toe into the dangerous Bukowski waters.
Lev Grossman says the 21st century novel is going to be about “the ongoing exoneration and rehabilitation of plot”.
The “commercial arm” of the BBC is looking to sell its majority stake in BBC Audiobooks.
GalleyCat continues to relish the imaginary literary career of Martin Eisenstadt.
This week’s Poet’s Choice at the WaPo: “Content is King” by Rebecca Wolff.
Asus throws its hat into the eBook reader ring.
Today in Literature: On this day in 1833, the Mills and Factory Act was passed in England, book-ended by the conscious-raising literary careers of William Blake and Charles Dickens.
AuthorScoop
August 29th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I’m still not sure why so many novels, teen or otherwise, insist on describing characters down to every bend in the auburn hair. Unless it matters what size jeans the character wears, it doesn’t matter.
Now in the case of a plot point (or the entire plot) revolving around a character’s size, we stray into the front pews and I get wary. Social commentary is very important in fiction, but it has to be a deft hand that writes it.
August 29th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
And is it wrong that I think that whole Martin Eisenstadt thing is hilarious?
Sometimes I’m such a child.