Saturday Morning LitLinks

Alexandra Alter gets a rare shot at an in-person interview with Don DeLillo. (Wall Street Journal)

Ruth Padel looks back on her very bad year and her “moment of lunacy.” (Times Online)

Queens University of Charlotte’s Cathy Smith Bowers named North Carolina’s new Poet Laureate. (Charlotte Observer)

Amazon plays hardball with Macmillan. (Publishers Weekly)

Some audio from Poetry Live for Haiti. (BBC)

Lionel Shriver tries to make sense of JD Salinger’s life as a recluse. (Telegraph)

Carolyn Kellogg introduces her readers to Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s Clobberin’ Time!!!, a site dedicated to portraits of authors and literary characters as envisioned by some of today’s best illustrators. (LATimes Jacket Copy)

Jason Boog looks back at the writers we lost this week. (GalleyCat)

On this day in 1933 Ezra Pound met with Benito Mussolini and sealed his fate. (Today in Literature)

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2 Responses to “Saturday Morning LitLinks”

  1. Stew Says:
    January 31st, 2010 at 3:49 pm

    the Ezra Pound story is fascinating. One of the great things about AuthorScoop is that you give me just enough that if I’m interested I’ll seek out more. I’ll be reading much more about Ezra Pound. I didn’t realize there was so much to know. Thanks.

  2. William Haskins Says:
    January 31st, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    thanks, stew.

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