Tuesday Morning LitLinks
Sierra Leone’s Olufemi Terry takes the 2010 Caine Prize for African Writing for his story, “Stickfighting Days.” (BBC)
Read “Stickfighting Days.” (The Guardian)
Vanessa Thorpe takes her turn with Lee Siegel’s pronouncement that the American novel is dead. (The Observer)
Harry Mount uses Siegel’s commentary as a jumping-off point for asking where the “page-turner novel” has gone. (Telegraph)
Do eReaders slow down the reading process? (PCWorld)
Israeli authors discuss the role of literature in peacemaking. (Today’s Zaman)
Carol Rumens is back with a new poem of the week: “Hüm” by Jen Hadfield. (Guardian Books Blog)
American public libraries head for the mall. (Yahoo)
Rod Sharp examines a fresh crop of literary magazines that are “breathing life into the publishing industry.” (The Independent)
Robin Ince seeks out the ‘exquisite drive’ of the best bad books. (Telegraph)
“On this day in 1535, Sir Thomas More was beheaded, his punishment for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England, and husband of as many as he pleased. More’s last letter, written in charcoal from the Tower on the eve of his execution, praises his daughter Margaret for showing the authorities that she too “hath no leisure to look to worldly courtesy.”" (Today in Literature)
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