Friday Morning LitLinks
Levi Asher of LitKicks, reveals the story (and photos) behind his search for Fitzgerald’s and Gatsby’s, Valley of Ashes. (LitKicks)
As book reviews go, the more, the merrier - Slate to launch monthly book review section. (The New York Times)
Sometimes, if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. Here are some books that are an object lesson of that truism. (The Guardian)
Mark Zusak’s, THE BOOK THIEF, is headed to the screen, or at least from the screenwriter, Michael Petroni, to Downton Abbey director, Brian Percival. (GalleyCat)
Random House jacks up library ebook prices by sometimes 300%. (The Digital Shift)
Digital self-publishing explodes, but should trade publishers take heed? (The Atlantic)
Prologue Books will electronically revive out-of-print titles for F+W Media. (Publishers Weekly)
Louise Fennel sits down with The Scotsman to talk about her debut novel, DEAD RICH. (The Scotsman)
The Independent Publishers Guild posts the shortlist for their annual awards. (The Bookseller)
Notable Seattle bookseller, David Ishii, dies at age 76. (The Seattle Times)
“On this day in 1930 forty-four-year-old D. H. Lawrence died in Vence, France, of tuberculosis. Lawrence was so scoffing of medical (or any other) science that he refused to name or accept his condition, or to submit to any of the ‘magic mountain’ treatments recommended to him…” (Today In Literature)
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