Thursday Morning LitLinks
Jonathan Demme planning to adapt Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun as an animated feature. (NYTimes)
Val McDermid calls all the hand-wringing over sexism in crime fiction a “red herring”. (Guardian Books Blog)
Relatives of men believed to have been executed and buried with the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca are “delighted” that work is underway to exhume the grave. (AP)
Alex Lam celebrates unrequited love in fiction. (Lit Drift)
Edan Lepucki examines the touchy business of authors having their book jacket photos taken. (The Millions)
Jason Boog introduces today’s installment of Morning Media Menu, featuring Fictionnaut co-founder Jürgen Fauth. (GalleyCat)
Does Martin Amis hate celebrity novelists, or just women? Jean Hannah Edelstein sounds off. (Guardian Books Blog)
Paul Bignell and Andrew Johnson look at the “band of brave authors” who have taken on writing sequels to literary sacred cows. (The Independent)
Speaking of which… Micky Zucker Reichert to bring Asimov’s Dr. Susan Calvin stories back to life. (The Guardian)
R.I.P. Morton Marcus, professor and poet. (San Jose Mercury News)
On this day in 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, “the last Elizabethan”, was executed. (Today in Literature)
AuthorScoop
October 29th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Oh, I like Val McDermid’s article as a continuation of the discussion on graphic violence and how it relates to misogyny in crime fiction. Terrific perspective. I like that the topic has stirred up such interesting conversation.