Tuesday Morning LitLinks

Alec Michod chats it up with “brainy British novelist” David Mitchell. (The Rumpus)

The launch of Suzanne Collins’s Mockingjay creates high hopes among booksellers. (NYTimes)

The September 2010 issue of World Literature Online is now, well, online. (WLT)

Charlotte Higgins examines the ethics of the memoir. (The Guardian)

Jeff Rivera talks to bestselling author Phillipa Gregory (audio). (GalleyCat)

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg muses on the effect of Seth Godin walking away from traditional publishing. (Wall Street Journal)

Daniel B. Roberts profiles the “next big thing in urban hipster lit”, Tao Lin. (Salon)

John Le Carré calls James Bond a “neo-fascist” gangster. (Telegraph)

Google shifts its stance on net neutrality. What does that mean for the book settlement? (Publishers Weekly)

“On this day in 1847 Charlotte Bronte sent her manuscript of Jane Eyre to her eventual publisher, under her pseudonym of Currer Bell. Many first reviewers thought the book outrageous; one speculated that Currer Bell was an “unsexed” woman who dared “to trample upon customs established by our forefathers, and long destined to shed glory upon our domestic circles.” (Today in Literature)

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