Tuesday Morning LitLinks
Okay. Finally, a literary mash-up that amuses me. (GalleyCat)
Regina Brett looks at the handwriting over a house where Langston Hughes once lived and wonders if it might be more important to instead preserve an appreciation for the author’s works. (cleveland.com)
The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library will open soon. (Official site)
John Cusack to play Edgar Allen Poe in a new thriller film. (CBC News)
Luke Sampson chats it up with author and poet Ismail Kadare. (Financial Times)
JK Rowling donates £10 million to set up a multiple sclerosis research center in the name of her mother, who died from complications of the disease. (Telegraph)
Jonathan Jones sings the praises of eReading in the dark. (Guardian Books Blog)
Pynchon’s 2006 letter defending Ian McEwan against charges of plagiarism. (Letters of Note)
Bo Emerson talks to Jonathan Franzen. (accessAtlanta)
Tom Bissell defends Virginia Quarterly Review editor Ted Genoways in the aftermath of Kevin Morrissey’s suicide. (The New York Observer)
“On this day in 1946 John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” was published in The New Yorker. The article took up almost all sixty-eight pages of text space, an unprecedented and unannounced step for the magazine, taken so “that everyone might well take time to consider.” When Hersey died in 1993, one obituary called “Hiroshima” the “most famous magazine article ever published.”" (Today in Literature)
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