Sunday Morning LitLinks
February will be the launch-pad calendar page for The Month of Letters and a push to revive the art of letter writing. (GalleyCat)
Author, Alec Wilkinson, has a chat with Amazon about his new book, THE ICE BALLOON. (omnivoracious.com)
John Lanchester chews on why John Updike might be too good a writer. (London Review of Books)
Some clown hollowed out a bunch of books and put 36 pounds of cocaine where the words should have been. (DNAinfo.com)
The NY Times profiles poet, John Galassi. (The New York Times)
A year in the life of House of Anansi Press. (The National Post)
Edward St. Aubyn’s congenital silver spoon stirs his imagination and typing fingers to skewer the upper class. (Slate)
Q & A with Walter Mosley in… (The Chicago Sun Times)
“On this day in 1728 John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera opened in London. Its satire and singability made it a first-run sell-out, a cultural craze across England, the most produced play of the 18th century, and the original ‘ballad opera,’ first in the Gilbert and Sullivan line. Within the first week one London paper was reporting ‘a very general Applause, insomuch that the Waggs say it hath made Rich [the theater manager] very Gay, and probably will make Gay very Rich.’…” (Today In Literature)
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