Friday Morning LitLinks
Alaskan poet Joan Kane takes the prestigious Whiting Award and $50,000. (KTVA)
With Halloween right around the corner, Wayne Gooderham reflects on a true masterpiece of horror, Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. (Guardian Books Blog)
France’s book prize season now in full swing. (AFP)
A collection of letters written by Lord Byron to his closest friends sells for nearly half a million dollars. (Reuters)
Some European publishers will be able to sidestep the book-price wars. (Wall Street Journal)
Emily Dickinson’s childhood home (and part of the Emily Dickinson Museum) damaged after a ceiling collapse. (GalleyCat)
Cuba’s Ministry of Culture cuts a deal with the Kennedy Library in Boston for some of Hemingway’s papers. (NYT)
The Adderall Diaries author Stephen Elliott recaps his rather bizarre book tour. (The Rumpus)
R.I.P. August Coppola, professor of literature. (LATimes)
On this day in 1811 Jane Austen’s first novel, Sense and Sensibility, was published. (Today in Literature)
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