Footnotes, October 2022: Book links from around the web
At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye.
- There’s been an update on Salman Rushdie’s injuries after he was attacked in August – the author has lost his sight in one eye and the use of one hand.
- Short-form nightmares – just in time for Halloween, check out The Guardian’s list of the top 10 horror short stories.
- The world’s leading literary agent Andrew Wylie: ‘Amazon is like ISIS; it takes no prisoners’.
- 89-year-old Cormac McCarthy is publishing two novels in two months after a 16-year wait – two novels that will likely be his last.
- George RR Martin has confirmed he’s ‘3/4 done’ with the next instalment of Game of Thrones. The author equivalent of ‘I’m leaving now’ …
- A new report by PEN America has found that ‘deep and persistent obstacles’ in publishing houses impede greater diversity in terms of authors and stories told.
- Pablo Neruda is cancelled – but should reproachable behaviour negate artistic contributions?
- John Irving wrote a 900-page novel about skiing. Here’s why.
- How author Colleen Hoover – who outsold the Bible by more than 3 million copies so far this year – went from tending cows to writing bestsellers.
- Behold: A rare Alan Moore interview spotted in the wild.
- Author RL Stine – three-time winner of the RL Stine Creative Writing Award – has celebrated 30 years of ‘Goosebumps’.
- New Zealand’s arts council ends funding for a popular school Shakespeare programme, citing ‘imperialism’.
- But the Bard is still laughing all the way to the bank: The University of British Columbia has paid almost $7.4 million for a rare copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio.
- What makes a bestseller? It seems like the answer should be simple – a book that sold the best. But the truth is more complicated.
- And finally, ‘Books should be seen as brussels sprouts, not because they taste bad, but because they are good for you.’
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