The Literary Link List

Links to pieces, old and new, on literature: 

• Classics and cocktails?  Yes, please!  Classic literature and the cocktails they inspired over at Flavorwire
• Pie chart!  The most popular Kurt Vonnegut tomes over at PWxyz
• BookRiot rounds up the best literary TED talks.  Elizabeth Gilbert on creativity was simply delightful!
• Ezra Pound on literary criticism over at Brain Pickings.
• I want to read this book!  Alexandra Popoff discusses her new book  The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants over at Publishers Weekly.

The Literary Link List

Links to pieces, old and new, on literature: 

• Counterintuitive Cover Stories in The Atlantic Magazine over at Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency
• Also at McSweeney's, Re-Entering the Work Force: Motherly Skills Apply 
• Ewww. Erotic retellings of classics is now officially a thing.  8 Erotic Retellings of Classic Literature over at Buzzfeed
• Blurbese: "a _____ debut" over at Ploughshares Literary Magazine
• These Are the Books That Make You Totally Undateable over at Flavorwire
• Why Marginalia? over at Critical Margins

The Literary Link List

Links to pieces, old and new, on literature:

• The Top 10 Nabokov Short Stories over at Publisher's Weekly
• Envy, or, The Last Infirmity over at Los Angeles Review of Books
• Jonathan Franzen's Book Shelf over at Strand
• Apparently creepy is culturally specific:  10 of the Most Terrifying Children's Book From Around the World over at Flavorwire
• Audio of Jennifer Egan on her writing process and A Visit From The Goon Squad over at PEN American Center
• Do the folks at Flavorwire read my blog??  Probably not...but great minds think alike! 30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Turning 30 
• Seth Fried responds by selecting 3 Books You Should Read Before You Turn 3
• Chuck Klosterman is now The Ethicist over at The New York Times

The Literary Link List

Links to pieces, old and new, on literature:

• The Most Cryptic Titles in Literature (And What They Mean) over at Flavorwire
• Nine Writers and Publicists Tell All About Readings and Book Tours over at The Awl 
• The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do over at McSweeney's Internet Tendency
• "Suicide is Preferable":  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Jane Austen over at Book Riot
• Even David Foster Wallace Nods over at The Millions ( I LOVE the back and forth in the comments over whether or not my beloved DFW did or did not use a not-right-enough word).