Thursday Morning LitLinks
Nandini Jayakrishna chats it up with the “father of African literature,” Chinua Achebe. (The Brown Daily Herald)
Darragh McManus examines why Orwell’s masterpiece Nineteen-Eighty Four continues to capture the public imagination while Katharine Burdekin’s (pen name Murray Constantine) Swastika Night languishes in obscurity. (Guardian Books Blog)
Say it ain’t so: author Ken Auletta says that Google lacks ‘emotional intelligence.’ (CNET)
Stan Carey on the silliness of profanity filters and the wrong kind of dicks. (Sentence first)
The Austrialian Booksellers Association is less than pleased with the government’s resistance to changing book import laws. (theBookseller.com)
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers announces a new series by Lemony Snicket. (GalleyCat)
Harriet Evans has had just about enough of this “chick lit” bullshit. (Guardian Books Blog)
R.I.P. Thomas Eagan, poet, author and playwright. (Examiner)
R.I.P. Osmond Molarsky, children’s author. (San Jose Mercury News)
On this day in 1935, poet Theodore Roethke suffered the first of his many manic-depressive breakdowns. (Today in Literature)
November 12th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I love the Guardian book blog. It consistently delivers interesting stuff.