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SHAUN SMITH'S SUNDAY SUNDRIES
Submitted by ssmith on June 26, 2011 - 12:42am
A WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF INTERNET CURIOSITIES FROM THE BOOK WORLD
Writers on writers
Insults, barbs & jabs between writers.
The illustrated Interview
Austrailian kids book illustrator Shaun Tan was interviewed by Der Spiegel and provided answers in a unique form: illustrations.
Books are for the birds.
Artist Amy Switzer makes bird sculptures out of old books.
Map of the word
A weird little tool designed, apparently, to show the relationships between authors.
Sarah Palin, poet
Found poetry from the Sarah Palins emails.
No mystery
A Seattle mystery bookshop has refused to carry books from Amazon's new mystery imprint. When an author asked why not, the shop owner tore him a new a.hole.
"The computer says no."
David Walliams has a new book out. (Read: excuse ... to ... link ... Little ... Britain ... videos.)
June Craft
Don't forget to check out this month's Fiction Craft on Open Book Ontario. The question: How do you make your characters come alive? Answered by: William Nicholson, Jen Sookfong Lee, Jim Nason, Andrew Pyper, Julie Booker, Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem & Pat van Beirs, Craig Battle, Cathy Stonehouse, and S.J. Watson.
