Monday Morning LitLinks
Bookslut’s Jessa Crispin gets a nice little write-up in The Age while working the Melbourne Writers Festival…
Meanwhile, Philip Hensher exposes the tooth and claw lurking beneath the surface of lit festivals.
Berkeley professor Geoffrey Nunberg has some fun with erroneous Google Book searches…
Meanwhile, both sides of the Google Book debate sharpen their knives for the upcoming “fairness hearing” in US District Court.
The Chronicle’s Michelle Richmond parses the list of the 10 best Southern novels of all time.
Disney find something it hasn’t yet bought and acquires Marvel Comics for $4 billion.
Alan Bissett says that last week’s outburst by James Kelman extends far beyond the borders of Scotland.
GalleyCat shares the ups and downs on the publishing world: HarperCollins is hiring; Random House is taking a bath.
Today in Literature: On this day in 1946, The New Yorker devoted nearly all its issue’s text space to John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”.
AuthorScoop
August 31st, 2009 at 8:00 pm
I innocently followed the link about literary festivals, only to find it segue abruptly down the page into tales of teabagging in the Australian Navy. How come our newspapers don’t do that sort of thing?
September 1st, 2009 at 7:37 am
we have a little something called “community standards”. heh…