Sunday Morning LitLinks
The Spanish city of Valladolid remembers Miguel Delibes. (Latin American Herald Tribune)
Janice Turner profiles the very funny, very frightening Lionel Shriver. (Times Online)
Jennifer Schuessler examines the lack of attention in novels to the work life. (NYTimes)
Australian author Kathy Lette uncovers her ancestral link to the Botany Bay settlers. (Telegraph)
McCrum tracks down some of today’s top Shakespearean actors and directors about the myriad conspiracy theories regarding the authorship of the Bard’s plays. (The Guardian)
Biographer Laura Skandera Trombley examines Mark Twain’s dark side. (LATimes)
Headline of the week: “Guy’s Frozen Penis Snaps Off in Ian McEwan’s New Novel” (Gawker)
R.I.P. Vinda Karandikar, poet. (DNA India)
“On this day in 1939, John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath was published. Although Steinbeck believed that he had succeeded in his “very grave attempt to do a first-rate piece of work,” he was so convinced that his “revolutionary” book would be unpopular and unread that he tried to dissuade his publisher from having a large first printing.” (Today in Literature)
AuthorScoop
March 14th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Interesting article about the Australian First Fleet’s convicts. Anybody interested in that place and time should read Robert Hughes’ excellent book, Fatal Shore.
March 14th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
thanks for the tip on the hughes book, chris.