Thursday Morning LitLinks
Nigel Farndale presents an excellent profile of PD James, who turns 90 next month. (Telegraph)
Chris Power explores the “quiet style and exuberant use of references” in the short fiction of Jorge Luis Borges. (Guardian Books Blog)
Brian Spears tries to make sense of the Paris Review “un-acceptance” controversy. (The Rumpus)
Jeff Bertolucci wonders which eReader will be the first to hit a $99 price point. (PCWorld)
Tanya Paperny peers into her uncertain professional future as a writer. (LitDrift)
Anna David surveys the cluttered landscape of celebrity books. (The Daily Beast)
Lindsay Eaney muses on eight literary works that “deserve a graphic-novel treatment.” (Paste)
Jeff Rivera chats it up with literary agent Peter McGuigan. (GalleyCat)
“On this day in 1941, on his twelfth wedding anniversary, Eugene O’Neill presented the just-finished manuscript of Long Day’s Journey Into Night to his wife, Carlotta, with a touching dedication. He later instructed his wife and his publisher that the play could not be printed until 25 years after his death, and not performed ever — instructions which Carlotta overrode almost as soon as she got the chance.” (Today in Literature)
AuthorScoop
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:28 am
I really don’t understand how often we hear of writers making sure that someone sees their work, or know where a cache of it is, but issues a deathbed directive that it never see the light of day.
I understand a memoir having a launch date past when anyone mentioned in it is wormfood, but it’s hard to shake off the melodrama of these orders.