Sunday Morning LitLinks
Danuta Kean profiles former historian and current Romantic Novel of the Year nominee Rachel Hore. (The Independent)
Daniel Beekman ponders the fate of the writings of Chaim Grade. (New York Daily News)
William Skidelsky looks at the career of Jonathan Franzen and where he goes from here after his TIME cover story and the success of his new book. (The Observer)
Ian Rankin now baffled at the purple prose of his early novels. (Telegraph)
Lonnae O’Neal Parker profiles The Help author, Kathryn Stockett. (The Washington Post)
UC Berkeley tries out the rent-a-book concept. (San Jose Mercury News)
Hilary Mantel joins the “summer short story special” with “Comma.” (The Guardian)
Mark Sanderson returns with another installment of ‘Literary Life.’ (Telegraph)
“On this day in 1947, India and Pakistan gained independence from Britain. Salman Rushdie got the title for his 1981 Booker Prize-winner, Midnight’s Children from the speech Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru gave in the first minutes of the new day: “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. . . .”" (Today in Literature)
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