Saturday Morning LitLinks
Will universal literacy drive us headlong into universal authorship? (SEEDMAGAZINE)
Myrna Douzjian examines Armenian literature after the genocide. (Asbarez News)
Scottish poet JO Morgan takes the Aldeburgh first collection prize for his narrative poem, “Natural Mechanical”. (The Guardian)
Kanye West’s picture book arrives. Yay. (FOXNews)
Susannah Carson reminds us that behind every gimmicky mash-up is a classic that deserves to be remembered in its own right. (LATimes)
A new issue of Tin House is now available and packed with goodies. (Tin House)
BookExpo America trimming back its exhibit hours. (Publishers Weekly)
The Miami Book Fair International carries on after cutting poetry and music, along with a kickoff parade. (AP)
Peter Robins shares some litlinks of his own (they call them “Linklogs” across the pond, apparently). (Guardian Books Blog)
R.I.P. Shel Dorf, founder of Comic-Con International. (GamePro)
On this day in 1978, noted essayist Janet Flanner died. (Today in Literature)
November 7th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
But that graph features the words “Twitter Authors”. Automatic two-tenths deduction for faulty semantics.
November 7th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Plotting the data on semi-log scale makes the situation visually less astounding (or frightening) than it really is.
But Twitter shouldn’t count, no more than text messages on your phone or the grocery list on the fridge do. Of course if you post the list on your blog, then you’ve crossed the line into authorship.