Daily Lit Links for 8/28
The wait is almost over...
Today’s news follows up on the deaths of Dominick Dunne and Ted Kennedy and celebrates the release of Suzanne Collins’ next post-apocalyptic novel. And to lighten things up, we threw in a link to a Meg Cabot essay with a neon pink background.
- Novelist and chronicler of celebrity life Dominick Dunne passed away on Wednesday at the age of 83. Dunne built his reputation writing about celebrity life and crime for Vanity Fair, but he also published 5 novels and 2 books of nonfiction along the way. The Los Angeles Times and New York Times comment on Dunne’s life and work in their blogs. His last novel, Too Much Money, is set for release in December.
- Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins’ follow up to The Hunger Games and the most buzzed about children’s book this year, is finally hitting bookstores on Tuesday, September 1st. Children’s Bookshelf talked to several booksellers and librarians about the their take on the book and the excitement being generated. It seems that those lucky enough to have received an advanced reading copy at Book Expo loved it just as much as The Hunger Games, and some stores are even throwing release parties. After all, nothing says “party” like a post-apocalyptic death match.
- In the wake of Senator Ted Kennedy’s death, Joyce Carol Oates has written a thought-provoking piece for the Guardian about how the tragic Chappaquiddick incident of 1969 might have ignited the positive change Kennedy is now praised for. Oates’ book Black Water was based on the Chappaquiddick incident, and this article is her way of reconciling the bad with the good it may have caused.
- And on a lighter note (so we don’t send you into the weekend feeling completely depressed), Meg Cabot gives a pep talk to Seventeen readers about dealing with rejection. In her energetic prose she tells teens about the numerous rejection letters she received before publishing The Princess Diaries and encourages them to keep trying. It may be just what they need to hear as the somber march back to school begins.
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