Wednesday Morning LitLinks
French writer Michel Houellebecq “turns his poison pen on himself.” (The Independent)
Check out an extract from Donald Sturrock’s upcoming biography, Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl. (Telegraph)
Bestselling novelist Pat Conroy will announce the National Book Award finalists at the childhood home of Flannery O’Connor on October 13. (Jacket Copy)
Plastic Logic’s QUE eReader dies before ever hitting the market. (theBookseller.com)
Martha Woodruff shares her self-publishing success story. (NPR)
Eat, Pray, Love reaches news heights (lows?) of commercialization. (Home Shopping Network)
Alison Flood digs a little deeper into Anis Shivani’s “overrated writers” list. (Guardian Books Blog)
Gary Dexter explains how the Dr. Seuss classic Green Eggs and Ham got its title. (Telegraph)
Guess what holds the top two spots on the Amazon Kindle store’s Top 100 Free list? Video games… (GalleyCat)
“On this day in 1937, expatriate Edith Wharton died in France, in the quiet, Old World style she liked to live and describe; also on this day in 1937, and in New World contrast, ex-expatriate Ernest Hemingway bared his hairy chest to Max Eastman’s unhairy one, demanded “What do you mean accusing me of impotence?” and then wrestled Eastman to the floor.” (Today in Literature)
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