Thursday Morning LitLinks
Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto inspires a new string quartet by composer Elena Ruehr. (San Jose Mercury News)
Stuart Evers explores the inspirational power of walking. (Guardian Books Blog)
Dr. Seuss goes digital. (Wired)
Jason Boog passes along the news about the launch of OffTheBookshelf.com, “a writing community where authors can build an online bookstore for their digital books.” (GalleyCat)
Russell Smith offers some commentary on the ever-strong writing advice industry. (The Globe and Mail)
Meanwhile, Laura Miller offers writers some advice from a reader’s perspective. (Salon)
Rare book dealer Kevin Johnson talks to movie poster dealer Walter Reuben about literature in film. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
What books are bestsellers in your city? (The Daily Beast)
A German judge has granted six publishers an injunction against filesharing site Rapidshare “to monitor and prevent the sharing of 148 books.” (GalleyCat)
“On this day in 1830 Victor Hugo’s Hernani premiered in Paris. Though the play is rarely read or staged now, the opening night is regarded as one of the most momentous in French theater history, part of a larger and most theatrical conflict between the new-wave bohemians in Hugo’s “Romantic Army” (these included Dumas, Balzac and Berlioz) and the old-guard Classicists — a conflict soon decisively won.” (Today in Literature)
AuthorScoop
February 25th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
The Guardian blog post about Ferris’ book — the guy who couldn’t stop walking — is interesting. In the post he locates the origins in fiction of the wandering-around observer, the flaneur. He attributes that innovative viewpoint to Baudelaire, but a very cool recent book by James Wood (How Fiction Works) locates the Big Change in the works of Flaubert. I recommend it. It has many other fascinating observations, especially about viewpoint.