Friday Morning LitLinks

$5 million judgment against Clive Cussler overturned by a California appeals court. (Denver Business Journal)

Sam Jordison looks back (on balance, rather fondly) at Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated. (Guardian Books Blog)

IndyBest rolls out a slide show of their choices for the best new books. (The Independent)

DreamWorks acquires the film rights to Kathryn Stockett’s bestseller The Help. (Reuters)

Michael O’Sullivan recaps last month’s Sulu DC, which showcased Asian American poets. (Washington Post)

James Cameron does some damage control to save his Hiroshima film plans. (NYT)

Meanwhile, Chinese sci-fi writer Zhou Shaomou sues Cameron for ripping off one of his novels.  (People’s Daily Online)

Jason Boog rounds up the honors from last night’s Shorty Awards in NYC. (GalleyCat)

“On this day in 1954, Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood was published in England; coming out just four months after his death in New York, it was an immediate best seller. Thomas’s lifelong ambivalence towards Wales — “Land of my fathers. My fathers can keep it”– is maintained in the play, his Laugharne becoming the imaginary village of Llareggub, or “bugger-all” backwards.” (Today in Literature)

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