Friday Morning LitLinks
Alexandra Alter explores “The Dark Side of Alice Munro.” (Wall Street Journal)
AL Kennedy reminds us that sex in a story is not always an end in itself. (Guardian Books Blog)
Sarah Duncan reminds us, in the midst of the bad sex awards, that getting it right ain’t always easy. (Guardian Books Blog)
Nabokov’s unfinished, posthumous novel, The Original of Laura, excerpted in Playboy. (GalleyCat)
Walmart.com’s CEO says the company’s $9 book pricing isn’t predatory. (Bloomberg)
The longlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction has been announced. (The Literary Saloon)
Sarah Palin sells 300,000 copies of Going Rogue on the first day. (The Daily Beast)
The Guardian takes a ride in the way-back machine to the death of Proust. (The Guardian)
On this day in 1934, Lillian Hellman’s “The Children’s Hour” opened on Broadway. (Today in Literature)
AuthorScoop
November 20th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Al Kennedy’s piece is brilliant and should be mandatory reading for anyone need some good points to ponder delivered on full-out belly laughs.
Loved it.
Wish I could tell him so myself.