Thursday Morning LitLinks
Jennifer Gilmore chats it up with novelist Chang-rae Lee. (The Rumpus)
Wesley Yang profiles historian, author and academic Tony Judt, now two years into his battle with ALS. (New York Magazine)
Australian authors rally around novelist Robert Dessaix, who has been banned from entering China because he is HIV positive. (Telegraph)
AL Kennedy puts one word after another. (Guardian Books Blog)
Go behind the scenes and discover some of the more eclectic parts of the David Foster Wallace archive in Austin. (The Second Pass)
Will Google’s book project change copyright law as we know it? (San Jose Mercury News)
Penguin’s Portfolio imprint launches Current, a new imprint for science books. (GalleyCat)
Winners announced for Best Translated Book Awards. (Three Percent)
“On this day in 1923, James Joyce wrote to his patron, Harriet Weaver, that he had just begun “Work in Progress,” the book which would become Finnegans Wake sixteen years later. When Nora found out that her husband was “on another book again,” she asked if, instead of “that chop suey you’re writing,” he might not try “sensible books that people can understand.”" (Today in Literature)
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