Wednesday Morning LitLinks
Random House / Andrew Wylie Saga Resolved
Random House Strikes Truce with Wylie Agency (GalleyCat)
Wylie and Random House make e-peace (The Literary Saloon)
Amazon Loses E-Book Deal (Wall Street Journal)
In other news:
Chris Power continues his “brief survey of the short story” with a look at the work of Vladimir Nabokov. (Guardian Books Blog)
Why aren’t Britons visiting libraries anymore? (Telegraph)
Poet Liz Lochhead will read at the funeral of Edwin Morgan tomorrow. (Herald Scotland)
Will Gompertz comments (briefly) on the “Franzen media roadshow”. (BBC)
Sean Di Lizio chronicles his experiences in attempting a novel in three days. (The Millions)
Joseph Berger details the woes of New York City’s sole Yiddish bookstore. (NYTimes)
Sabina Dana Plasse explores what makes US Poet Laureate WS Merwin tick. (Idaho Mountain Express)
Kayla Webley looks at what the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay are reading. (TIME)
R.I.P. Edward Kean, TV writer. (NYTimes)
R.I.P. Gerald Rosen, novelist and professor. (San Francisco Chronicle)
R.I.P. George David Weiss, songwriter. (NYTimes)
R.I.P. Satoshi Kon, anime writer and director. (Collider)
“On this day in 1949, Martin Amis was born. In any history of the last half-century of English Literature, a chapter will have to be given to the Amis family’s seventy-five books — and still counting, in Martin’s case. Two chapters might be better: one of father Kingsley’s many “failures of tolerance,” to use Martin’s phrase, was his contempt for his son’s postmodern novels, or the few he’d tried reading.” (Today in Literature)
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