Saturday Morning LitLinks
NPR invites a poet into their newsroom for a day and then the poet takes to his craft to verse the experience. Cool. This episode features Craig Morgan Teicher. (NPR)
The history of our childrens’ first tales, the picture book, is sketched at (The Atlantic)
Author, P.M. Terrell, weighs the relationship between crime and illiteracy. (The Fayetteville Observer)
A librarian with superpowers? Yes indeedy. Walden Media to adapt REX LIBRIS. (firstshowing.net)
The New York Times reflects on gay characters and gay authors and the shift in cultural mindset as wrought by the pen and the keyboard. (The New York Times)
The Guardian chats with author, William Kennedy. (The Guardian)
Rhode Island’s library treasure, the Providence Athenaeum, is simply wonderful. (NPR)
Dmitri Nabokov, who infamously flew in the face of his father’s wishes and published the literary giant’s last unfinished work, has died in Switzerland. He was 77. (The Washington Post)
Novelist, William Gay, dies at age 68. (Chapter 16)
“On this day in 1830 Victor Hugo’s Hernani premiered in Paris. Though the play is rarely read or staged now, the opening night is regarded as one of the most momentous in French theater history, part of a larger and most theatrical conflict between the new-wave bohemians in Hugo’s ‘Romantic Army’ and the old-guard Classicists…” (Today In Literature)
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