Saturday Morning LitLinks
Boyd Tonkin takes on Brontëmania. (The Independent)
Sheryl Garratt digs into the unlikely success story of Diary of a Wimpy Kid author, Jeff Kinney. (The Telegraph)
Audrey Niffenegger presents her short story, “Moths of the New World.” (The Guardian)
P. J. O’Rourke shares his favorite travel books. (The Daily Beast)
Mira Sethi goes between the covers of Alexandra Harris’ new biography of Virginia Woolf. (Wall Street Journal)
Baldur Bjarnason reports on the state of bookselling in Iceland. (TheBookseller.com)
Need some help naming that first novel? (NPR)
R.I.P. Morris Philipson, longtime director of the University of Chicago Press. (New York Times)
“On this day in 1935, the poet Theodore Roethke was hospitalized for a manic-depressive breakdown, the first of many he would endure. Whatever the causes of his mental problems, Roethke’s biographers say that he kept working with characteristic intensity even when ill; one of his psychiatrists said, “I think his troubles were merely the running expenses he paid for being his kind of poet.”" (Today in Literature)
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