This week’s bevy of fiction related links began in the belly, with a search for food related yarns. First up, a story by the author of A Moveable Feast. From there it is on to a food fable by two grim brothers and later a collection of essays on feasting and fasting.
Man, however, does not live by bread alone, so I moved on from gustatory related canards, as you can see from the plethora of links below. For you cigar aficionados there’s a story link to a site for smoking poets (or at least a site managed by a smoking poet). You’ll have to click through to find it. Enjoy.
Fiction:
- “A Very Short Story” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Queen of the Sea” by Grace Delobel
- “God’s Food” by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- “An Anarchist” by Joseph Conrad
- Mercury in Retrograde by Daren Dean
Essays, Commentary, and Criticism
- Leslie Leyland Fields’ Introduction to The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God
- What are Books Good For? by William Germano
- The World Between Two Covers by Alan Jacobs – his brief comments on Germano’s essay
- The Freedom of the Press by George Orwell – his proposed preface to Animal Farm
Reviews
- A Literary Labor of Love – An profile/review of John J. Miller and his novel The First Assassin
- The Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War by Hal Colebach & The Man-Kzin Wars XI, by Hal Colebatch, Matthew Joseph Harrington, and Larry Niven – Two Reviews by novelist Lars Walker
News:
- The International Comic Con to Remain in San Diego
- B&N Shareholders Reelect Riggio, Reject Burkle
- St. Martin’s Issues Statement on Revised Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan – – And the Path to Victory
- Is Interactive Fiction the Future of Books?
- Authors Feel the Pinch in an Age of E-Books
The Writing Life with Jagi Wright
So till next week, faithful fiction fanatics (and those lured in by clever use of blog post tags), good reading. If some bit of story-telling strikes your fancy in the coming week drop a note bellow. Stories exist to be shared.