Tuesday Morning LitLinks
Come for the poem, stay for the commentary… Carol Rumens returns with a fresh Poem of the Week: “Childhood” by Anne Bradstreet. (Guardian Books Blog)
The Story Prize committee announces the judges for the 2009 competition: author A.M. Homes, critic Carolyn Kellogg, and librarian Bill Kelly. (The Story Prize)
P.D James and Ruth Rendell aren’t wild about the TV adaptations of their books. (Times Online)
Robert McCrum celebrates the “twin triumph” of Mantel and Müller’s big 2009 lit prizes. (The Guardian)
Jason Boog reports on Chip O’Brien’s guest spot on today’s Morning Media Menu, discussing Bookswim’s hope to find success in the Netflix model for book rental. (GalleyCat)
Patrick Kurp does his part to make peace between modernists and formalists. (Anecdotal Evidence)
Kathrin Schmidt takes the 2009 German Book Prize for her novel Du stirbst nicht. (Deutscher Buchpreis)
R.I.P.Stuart M. Kaminsky, mystery writer. (Chicago Tribune)
R.I.P. Brendan Mullen, punk pioneer and author. (Spinner)
On this day in 1943, poet Robert Lowell went to jail for draft evasion. (Today in Literature)
AuthorScoop
October 13th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I haven’t seen the blog Anecdotal Evidence before — thanks, William. The piece quotes the best bit of genteel damning with faint praise I’ve seen in a while. From Elizabeth Bishop: “Although much of the poetry I happen to admire is not to be found in it, I shall think this is the best anthology I know of.”
She even ends her sentence with a preposition — take that, grammarians. The overall limp effect the “shall” imparts is also cute.
October 13th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
so glad you enjoyed it, chris.