Tuesday Morning LitLinks
Jonathan Littell takes the seventeenth annual Bad Sex in Fiction award for The Kindly Ones. (Literary Review)
Sam Jones finds “a surprising number of authors” still committed to writing on typewriters. (Guardian Books Blog)
Edward Rothstein surveys the events to commemorate the bicentennial of Edgar Allen Poe’s birth. (NYTimes)
Elisabeth Hasselbeck sued again… by the same author. (AHN)
Seamus Heaney says Ted Hughes should be honored with a plaque in Poets’ Corner, alongside Chaucer, Blake and Eliot. (Telegraph)
Kevin Smokler chats it up with McSweeney’s publisher Oscar Villalon. (The Rumpus)
Neil Gaiman ponders the future of audiobooks. (NPR)
JK Evanczuk surveys the short history of Twitter fiction projects. (Lit Drift)
John le Carré switches publishing houses with his new deal with Viking. (Publishers Weekly)
R.I.P. Robert Holdstock, fantasy author. (Guardian Books Blog)
R.I.P. Milorad Pavić, author and academic. (B92)
On this day in 1821, Percy Shelley’s “Adonais” was published. (Today in Literature)
AuthorScoop
December 1st, 2009 at 11:55 am
I want to comment on that winning passage from THE KINDLY ONES, but it’s not easy. I have to hope that in context there’s a point to anything that ugly and absurd. There has to be. Just tell me there is.
December 1st, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I love Audio Books, and happen to really love Gaiman, so that little tidbit put a big smile on my face.
thanks for that!