Friday Morning LitLinks
Michael Lieberman previews a reading by W.S. Merwin and other poets at Seattle’s Town Hall next month. (Seattlepi)
Alison Flood rounds up some of the more interesting tributes to JD Salinger. (Guardian Books Blog)
Newly released documents show that Out of Africa author Karen Blixen was totally ripped off when she was denied the Nobel Prize for being Scandinavian. (The Copenhagen Post)
John Lanchester says the modern work world has gotten too weird to make for believable fiction. (Telegraph)
Borders cuts another 164 jobs, most of them at their corporate headquarters in Ann Arbor. (Publishers Weekly)
JK Evanczuk explores the experience of listening to fiction. (Lit Drift)
Carol Rumens celebrates William Blake. (Guardian Books Blog)
Lots more great William Blake resources here. (Guardian)
Michael Berger revisits Roberto Bolaño’s last interview. (The Rumpus)
On this day in 1728 John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera opened in London and became a smash hit. (Today in Literature)
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