Today’s quick lit [& alt.cult] links from around the web:
“Imagine a Stephen King book that costs just over $90,000. Then try to grasp the fact that around $85,000 of that total is accounted for by the dust jacket alone.”
& The Cult interview James Ellroy
& ‘Right & Wrong Political Uses of Literature’ by Italo Calvino (via wood s lot)
& Religion for radicals, an interview with Terry Eagleton
& Banned Books Week‘s map of censorship
& Some favourite lines from Hard Case Crime novels (via Maud Newton)
& Filthy Dickens, out-of-context Charles Dickens quotations
& Lee Rourke’s 10.5 things he likes about Regent’s Canal, the setting for his forthcoming novel The Canal
& Don Draper & Tony Soprano would totally be friends (via @flavorpill)
[Image: c/o Mykl Roventine]
First posted: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009.
