Sunday Morning LitLinks
Katy Guest presents a sharp profile of Dan Rhodes. (The Independent)
The British Library to offer more than 65,000 rare first editions of 19th Century fiction for free download this spring. (Telegraph)
Stanley Crouch on Ralph Ellison: “(His) basic idea was that human frailty determined what happened far more often than human idealism, but that idealism continued to live because—whenever it actually came through!—the results were so monumental that a naive optimism grew.” (The Daily Beast)
Mark Lawson sees in the death of Salinger the end of a “remarkable era in US literature.” (The Guardian)
Claire Messud muses on why there are so few female writers. (Guernica)
Bruce Fessier catches up with a very different Anne Rice. (The Desert Sun)
William Skidelsky tries to solve the baffling riddle of why Martin Amis always seem to be in the line of fire. (The Observer)
Mark Sanderson rounds up some interesting literary tidbits. (Telegraph)
“On this day in 1601, Shakespeare’s Richard II was presented at the Globe playhouse, a performance especially arranged by those hoping to overthrow Queen Elizabeth the following day.” (Today in Literature)
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