Bookmarks: Sean Connery, Chinglish, and nude biographers

Bookmarks

July 7, 2008 | 10:16 AM | By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links:

Sean Connery backs out of memoir contract (Scotsman.com)
Will “Chinglish” outstrip English? (Wired)
Amanda Foreman accused of “devaluing the biographer’s skill” after posing nude in magazine (Times Online)
Book lover/garbage picker (The Globe and Mail)
University of Michigan cuts ties with London-based publisher over Israel book (MLive.com)
New Ottawa library gets funding plan (The Ottawa Citizen)
Sci-fi writer Thomas Disch commits suicide (BoingBoing.net)
Edgar Allen Poe’s cottage closed for renovations (CBC.ca)
David Gilmour’s The Film Club reviewed in the NYT (The New York Times)

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