Wednesday Morning LitLinks
Go behind the scenes of Larry McMurtry’s ‘Literary Life.’ (NPR)
Seattle named America’s most literate city for 2009. Find out how your city measures up here. (GalleyCat)
At what point does labeling a writer by race or ethnicity become too reductive? (Publishing Perspectives)
Philip Jones documents the death of Borders UK. (theBookseller.com)
Publishing terms creep into 2009 New York Times “Buzzwords.” (Publishers Weekly)
Nicholas Lezard exposes the folly of ‘literary fingerprinting.’ (Guardian Books Blog)
Matthew Shaer examines whether eBooks will fundamentally change the way we read. (The Christian Science Monitor)
M.A. Orthofer rounds up a bunch of new UK bestseller lists. (The Literary Saloon)
On this day in 1823 the Christmas classic, “A Visit From St. Nicholas” (commonly known as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”) was published anonymously in the Troy, New York Sentinel. (Today in Literature)
December 23rd, 2009 at 7:46 pm
No matter what McMurtry says, Lonesome Dove is one of my all-time favorites. A couple of his prequels to it sucked (most notably Comanche Moon), but I’ve reread Lonesome Dove almost as many times as I have Catch-22.