Bookmarks: Sean Connery, Chinglish, and nude biographers
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)
