Wednesday Morning LitLinks

Lev Raphael looks at Jane Austen’s unlikely rise to fame. (Huffington Post)

David Dahlquist takes “Poet’s Pad” for a test drive. (PC World)

Imogen Russell-Williams looks at the lengths children’s book authors will go to in order to avoid dirty language. (Guardian Books Blog)

Maryann Yin wonders if Amish Romance will overtake Vampire Romance. (GalleyCat)

Craig Fehrman looks back at TIME cover stories about writers who aren’t Jonathan Franzen. (The Millions)

Aimee Levitt explores books worth reading that aren’t by Jonathan Franzen. (St. Louis News)

Max Read looks at the threats made by Girls Gone Wild “impresario” Joe Francis to keep a tell-all about him off the bookshelves. (Gawker)

Frank Owen’s plagiarism charges against Gerald Posner to get their day in court. (Miami News)

“On this day in 1522 Captain Sebastian del Cano returned to Spain, completing Magellan’s first circumnavigation of the earth. Of the five ships and approximately 270 men who set out, only one ship and seventeen men returned. Among the survivors was Antonio Pigafetta, an Italian tourist destined to make a major contribution to the genre of travel literature.” (Today in Literature)

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One Response to “Wednesday Morning LitLinks”

  1. Lev Raphael Says:
    September 9th, 2010 at 11:29 am

    Thanks for the link to my HuffPo blog!

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