Daniel Schorr
1916-2010

“This is a cherished profession”: Daniel Schorr, 1916-2010 (The Salt Lake Tribune)

Daniel Schorr: His first Monitor story, from 1948 (Christian Science Monitor)

Longtime journalist Daniel Schorr dies at age 93. (NY Daily News)

This Is Daniel Schorr (NPR)

In Other News:

Mike Fleming examines the legality of Random House’s “bullying” of agents over eBooks. (Deadline)

Steve Almond hits back at the New York Times Book Review’s take on his latest, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life. (The Rumpus)

The University of Virginia releases an online audio archive of Faulkner recordings. (Washington Post)

A former prison librarian offers up some reading suggestions for Lindsay Lohan as she serves out her jail sentence. (The Daily Beast)

Steven Moore traces the origins of the novel and finds that conventional western academia’s take on it has been a a bit… oversimplified. (Guardian Books Blog)

Jeff Jarvis explores whether the Amazon Kindle is “becoming the enemy of authors.” (The Faster Times)

Ron Rosenbaum makes a case for the “next big Nabokov controversy.” (Slate)

The Wylie/Amazon/Random House controversy rolls on. (NYTimes)

Judy Berman cobbles together a nostalgic reading list from the TV show Mad Men. (Flavorwire)

“On this day in 1725 John Newton, the seaman-turned-preacher who wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace,” was born. Newton’s autobiography (An Authentic Narrative of some Interesting and Remarkable Particulars in the Life of John Newton, 1764) reveals an amazing life, and makes clear how repeatedly lost and found a wretch he was.” (Today in Literature)

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