Literary Link Love

I am long, looooooooong overdue for a link roundup. So much good stuff: Toni Morrison is going to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In other Toni Morrison news, New York recently posted a fabulous profile on her. There was a lot of buzz when HBO made a move to adapt Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections into

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Haven’t done one of these in a looooong time… Over at Tiger Beatdown, the always fabulous s.e. smith dissects the “strong female character” archetype (hint: it almost never applies to women of color, trans women, and women with disabilities). Guernica has a new Sherman Alexie poem up, The Lost Colony of Roanoke, 1587. Girl with

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The Hairpin discusses why Villette is way better than Jane Eyre. If you’re participating in the Year of Feminist Classics reading project you’ve probably already seen this. If you haven’t, Jillian wrote a great piece inspired by the first book of the project: Mary Wollstonecraft – a “Bitch”? Tami is starting a Black feminist online

Literary Link Love

I’m such a slacker! I have a billion links (okay, more like 16) because I haven’t done one of these in a while. Anyhoo, if you have a literature-related link you’d like to share, feel free to leave it in the comments! Amazon finally pulled The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure off its shelves. Interview with

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Tiger Beatdown: The Girl With The Lots of Creepy Disturbing Torture That Pissed Me Off: On Stieg Larsson There are some problems with Dragon Tattoo, and let’s talk about the main one: There are a lot of dead ladies in this book. Literally: hundreds…But the bottom line is not so much that of a Reviewer,