Wednesday Morning LitLinks
Get to know Mary Karr as she discusses her new memoir, Lit. (NPR)
Christopher Hamilton-Emery lobbies for London to return a major poetry landmark by restoring Sue Hubbard’s “Eurydice” to the Waterloo underpass. (Guardian Books Blog)
The National Heritage Memorial Fund awards £550,000 to Cambridge to assist the university in reaching the £1.25 million needed to permanently secure the papers of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon. (BBC)
Haitian-born Canadian Dany Laferriere and American Dave Eggers take France’s Medicis prize. (AFP)
Eileen Pollack recounts her experiences teaching Uwem Akpan, whose book Say You Are One of Them has been chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. (CNN)
John Grisham’s Ford County caught in a tug-of-war as Walmart and Amazon play dueling discounts. (AP)
R.I.P. Francisco Ayala, Spanish essayist and novelist. (Latin American Herald Tribune)
R.I.P. Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist and author. (NYTimes)
R.I.P. Robert “Dike” Blair, bookseller. (Publishers Weekly)
On this day in 1918, Wilfred Owen was killed in action in France. (Today in Literature)
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