Wednesday Morning LitLinks
Quentin Tarantino plans to retire from filmmaking at 60 and become a novelist. (Digital Spy)
Poetry Foundation editor Travis Nichols lists the top-selling books of contemporary poetry published in 2009. (Huffington Post)
Publishers Weekly defends its “Afro Picks” cover. (Publishers Weekly)
Check out the transcript of Cory Doctorow’s “How to Destroy the Book” speech, delivered last month at the National Reading Summit. (theVarsity.ca)
Olivia Snaije reports on the “quiet revolution” staged by French literary agents. (Publishing Perspectives)
Phil Hall looks at the sensory impact of literary food. (Guardian Books Blog)
Jason Boog rounds up the latest from mediabistro.com’s eBook Summit. (GalleyCat)
R.I.P. Patricia Ross, children’s author and editor. (Publishers Weekly)
On this day in 1901, The Tale of Peter Rabbit was self-published by Beatrix Potter, after she had been turned down by a half-dozen publishers. (Today in Literature)
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