Saturday Morning LitLinks
Aimee Zaring chats it up with award-winning author Neela Vaswani. (The Rumpus)
Check out an abridged version of Lev Grossman’s cover story on Jonathan Franzen… (TIME)
…and Franzen’s “take on five novels that inspired him recently.” (TIME)
Paranormal romance writers to hit the road on the Smart Chicks Kick It Tour. (Publishers Weekly)
Tom Jacobs examines the capacity of pop-up books to serve as learning tools. (Miller-McCune)
Author Lev Raphael seeks to apply the dramatic professional exit of Steven Slater to the life of a writer. (Huffington Post)
Olivia Cole talks to friends of the late Patricia Neal about the late actresses’ marriage to Roald Dahl. (The Daily Beast)
Maryann Yin reports on Alikewise, a “dating site for bookworms.” (GalleyCat)
R.I.P. Tahar Wattar, Algerian novelist. (NYTimes)
“On this day in 1834, nineteen-year-old Richard Dana boarded the merchant brig, Pilgrim for the Boston-California return voyage that would become Two Years Before the Mast. His 1840 book, written with a desire to tell in “a voice from the forecastle” of the ordinary seaman’s life, was an immediate international hit.” (Today in Literature)
AuthorScoop
August 15th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Two Years Before the Mast is one of those books that holds up after more than 150 years. The book also changed the way seamen where treated.