Monday Morning LitLinks
Antonia Crane chats it up with Viva Las Vegas about her memoir Magic Gardens. (The Rumpus)
Carol Rumens returns with a new Poem of the Week and some excellent commentary. This week: “Sympathy” by Laurence Dunbar. (The Guardian)
French authors and publishers ask a Paris court to put the smackdown on Google to the tune of $22 million for “brutally” exploiting the nation’s literary heritage. (Reuters)
Ron Hogan presents the anatomy of a book deal. (GalleyCat)
South Carolina vacation based on Pat Conroy’s newest novel, South of Broad. (Augusta Chronicle)
Jim Carroll’s funeral card. (Catholicboy.com)
Levi Asher reports on Joyce Carol Oate’s recent talk at the Smithsonian. (LitKicks)
McCrum asks whatever happened to the literary saga and if Robert Harris is poised to bring it back into fashion. (The Guardian)
Jake Kerridge profiles PD James “about detective fiction, her new book, and the technical problems of murder”. (The Telegraph)
Headline of the Day: “Dan Brown and the Mystical Cabal of Inaccurate Novels”. (Howzit Howard)
R.I.P. William Safire, political columnist. (BBC)
R.I.P. Izak de Villiers, poet and editor. (News24)
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