Thursday Morning LitLinks
Chris Cox examines why people still like to rag on Dave Eggers… and why it really doesn’t matter. (Guardian Books Blog)
Lynn Neary presents an excellent segment on doctors who write. (NPR)
Is Stephenie Meyer America’s JK Rowling? (The Independent)
Calvin Reid recaps the winners of last night’s National Book Awards. (Publishers Weekly)
Disney pulls the plug on the Michael Chabon-penned, $150 million production of “Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” (LATimes)
Andrew Motion to chair the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010. (The Literary Saloon)
If you’d like to relive the magic of last night’s ceremonies, Jason Boog live-blogged them. (GalleyCat)
Philip Roth, Amos Oz, Paul Theroux and Nick Cave all make it to the shortlist for the bad sex award. (The Guardian)
Happy birthday, Margaret Atwood (one day late, yeah, but it’s the thought that counts…). (Margaret Atwood)
On this day in 1692, British poet and playwright Thomas Shadwell (tagged by Dryden as “The King of Dullness”) died. (Today in Literature)
November 20th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Interesting link to the NPR story about writing and medicine. A lot of what a physician does is listen to, and tell, stories. At root what I and my colleagues do every day is the lowest of low tech.