Sunday Morning LitLinks
Peter Stanford profiles prolific historical fiction author Conn Iggulden. (The Independent)
The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary will be the last. Thanks a lot, internet. (Telegraph)
Julie Bosman examines how Jonathan Franzen was chewed up and spit out of the pop culture machine in record time. (NYTimes)
Diane Leach looks between the covers of Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth. (LATimes)
Simon Winder laments the end of Penguin’s ‘Great Ideas’ series. (The Guardian)
Mark Sanderson rounds up a new batch of interesting literary tidbits. (Telegraph)
Dean Kuipers explores the environmentalist side of US Poet Laureate WS Merwin. (LATimes)
R.I.P. Jules Edward Loh, journalist. (AP)
R.I.P. Jackson Gillis, TV drama writer. (NYTimes)
“On this day in 1833, the Mills and Factory Act was passed in England, one of a series of measures to improve the “Health and Morals” of child laborers. The Act allowed a forty-eight-hour work week for children aged nine to twelve, but it brought many changes which the younger Dickens and William Blake’s even younger “Chimney Sweeper” would have welcomed.” (Today in Literature)
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