Saturday Morning LitLinks
John Niven says (and rightly so, in my opinion) that the public needs to stop being distracted by the scandals and the haters and recognize Martin Amis as the literary giant he is. (The Independent)
Princeton announces its Firestone Library is housing five unpublished stories by JD Salinger, along with some letters. (centraljersey.com)
Emily Stokes lunches with Jonathan Safran Foer. (Financial Times)
“Christian diet book author” (odd description) scores $55,000 in a royalty dispute with Strang Communications. (Publishers Weekly)
David Tresilian visits with with the “godfather of African publishing,” James Currey. (Al-Ahram)
Jason Boog shares some interesting tidbits for weekend reading. (GalleyCat)
Johanna Seltz goes behind the scenes of the Hingham Poetry Study Group. (The Boston Globe)
“On this day in 1812 Lord Byron spoke for the first time in the House of Lords, choosing for his topic the recent Luddite rioting. Byron was twenty-four, recently returned from the obligatory Grand Tour of Europe, and ready for a career; had his speech been the success he hoped for, there is every chance that the career might have been in politics, rather than in poetry and persecution.” (Today in Literature)
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