May 22, 2010
Saturday Literature Links
It’s Saturday and I have a lot to catch up on, but I wanted to raise me head above the parapet and pass along these lovely links, which contain more mental protein than the sausages you’d find in a school cafeteria.
* The New Republic takes a look at Shirley Jackson’s writing career.
* Book Bitch Blog lets Michael Atkinson talk abut using Hemingway as a mystery detective.
* Meanwhile, Chuck Palahniuk is using blowup dolls as props for a book signing.
* This has been around for a bit, but Jason Pinter discusses the Joe Konrath effect, will new technology ruin talented authors. Short answer from myself: no. Editing authors is a 20th century concept. Who edited Dickens? Or Conan Doyle? Or Stephen Crane? An author who doesn’t recognize that might falter on their own, but that’s their lookout, innit? (Thanks, SlushPile.net)
* If you need new blogs to read, there’s the top 10 UK literature blogs.
* While this is meant to be links to literature, I have to pass along Frank Wilson’s recommendation for contemporary classical music by Lou Harrison. Listening to this was an ear-opening experience.
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