Monday Morning LitLinks
Sari Botton chats it up with author and essayist Shalom Auslander. (The Rumpus)
Peter Stothard rounds up a new batch of the best in British literature. (The Daily Beast)
Rachel Cooke profiles Israeli author David Grossman. (The Observer)
Might eBooks be a good fit in a correctional setting? (corrections.com)
A woman has crashed her car into Stephen King’s security gate. (WMTW)
Alison Flood details some of the best modern literary book tours. (The Guardian)
Judith Rosen highlights some sleepers of the fall season. (Publishers Weekly)
Gary Dexter explains how Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” got its title. (Telegraph)
Carol Rumens is back with a new poem of the week, Vona Groarke’s “Pier”. (Guardian Books Blog)
“On this day in 30 BC Cleopatra committed suicide. Death by self-inflicted asp was no whim: Cleopatra’s search for a painless exit caused more than one unfortunate to be experimentally force-fed this or that drug or snake. The dress-rehearsing done, came the final act: “Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have / Immortal longings in me. . . .”" (Today in Literature)
AuthorScoop
August 30th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I wonder about that Cleopatra and the asp story. For one thing, I thought it was a cobra. But asp or cobra, if you’re looking for an easy way to go, I would definitely not suggest snakebite.
August 30th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
i’ve always heard asp. but i agree, it seems a bit overdramatic and inefficient.