Book links roundup: Carol Burnett gets book deal, Guardian’s hunt for a 10th title, and more

• Carol Burnett to publish memoir about her daughter
• The Guardian seeks 10^th title for First Book Award
• Which popular trilogy sold 10 million copies in six weeks?
• Marvel Comics plans wedding issue for gay superhero
• Total Recall remade into ebook for movie release
• Self-published nutritionist gets seven-figure book deal
• Site from The Hunger Games film up for auction
• Which science fiction book should never be filmed?
• Print books vs. ebooks: are they equal?
• Why literary prizes matter to writers

Book links roundup: Barbara Gowdy named Guggenheim fellow, Nigella Lawson’s online literary controversy, and more

• Barbara Gowdy awarded 2012 John Simon Guggenheim fellowship for fiction
• Nigella Lawson offloads her friend Sophia Waugh’s book on eBay
• The Guardian explores the cultural evolution of Chinese literature
• Emily Gould on how to blow a $200,000 book advance
• Mike Wallace’s 1958 interview with Aldous Huxley

Book links roundup: Tamara Faith Berger’s provocative prose, Marvel Comics launches new imprint, and more

• Tamara Faith Berger’s new novel explores pornography, virginity, and literature
• Marvel Comics goes digital with new imprint ReEvolution
• What makes Times New Roman so popular among writers?
• The Guardian on the pleasure of rereading your favourite books
• Listen to an Atticus Finch –inspired literary mixtape

The anatomy of Ann Patchett’s influence

Last year, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Ann Patchett opened Parnassus Books, an independent bookstore in Nashville (a city that previously had no bookstore of its own). Her efforts to support independent bookselling have secured her a place among Time magazine’s nominees for the 100 most influential people in the world. The public is able to cast votes for their favourite among the nominees; the poll closes on April 6. The official list of 100 names as chosen by Time‘s editors will be published on April 17.

In its write-up, Time says of the author:

Patchett has demonstrated a singular ability to write smart literary novels that are also big best sellers. And when it comes to literature and books in general, she’s put her money where her mouth is: in 2011 she opened Parnassus Books in her hometown of Nashville, placing herself on the front lines of several ongoing battles for the fate of the printed word.

The eclectic list, which includes Oprah Winfrey, Queen Elizabeth II, Barack Obama, Ashton Kutcher, Mark Zuckerberg, and Rush Limbaugh (“influential” clearly being defined broadly”), also features writers George R.R. Martin, Suzanne Collins, and E.O. Wilson.

Writing in the Guardian, Alison Flood quotes Patchett, who appears sanguine about the nomination:

“The humour of it is not lost on me,” she said. “If Beyoncé can get 30,000 votes, I’d like to have 30. I would like fellow Tennesseans to vote for me just so I’m not an embarrassment to the state. [But] I don’t think I am going to take Rihanna down on this one.”

Her nomination, though, shows “that people are taking independent bookstores seriously, and I have come to stand for something,” she said – namely, that community is important, and so is “feeling like we are not all being eaten alive by a giant corporation.”

“It means people are ready for this change,” she says. “And that’s beautiful.”

Book links roundup: Saltspring Island launches literary festival, top 100 children’s books, and more

• Saltspring Island launches new literary festival with a political bent
• Parent & Child Magazine announces top 100 children’s books of all time
• Abraham Lincoln honoured on President’s Day with a 34-foot tower of books
• Dominique Browning learns to love airport lit
• The Guardian’s top 10 books about China

Book links roundup: Trillium Award reading series, unconventional publishers, and more

• Trillium Book Award launches a new reading series to celebrate its silver anniversary
• The Guardian profiles unconventional publishers
• Alex Epstein publishes short story collection as a Facebook photo album
• Original Charlotte’s Web illustrations by Garth Williams
• Amanda Knox signs a $4 million book deal with HarperCollins

Book links roundup: Transgender children’s books, famous gay writers, and more

• The rise of transgender children’s literature
• The National Post explores legendary gay writers who changed America
• Is reading on a Kindle sacrilege?
• Author Lawrence Hill and musical group Nathaniel Dett Chorale combine The Book of Negroes with Afrocentric music
• The Guardian predicts the marriage of books and the Internet

Book links roundup: Canadian poet portraits, top sibling stories, and more

• Photographer Jandak captures Canadian poets
• Shirley Jackson and Jane Austen make The Guardian‘s top 10 sibling stories
• Sh*t Book Reviewers Say
• Dimensional Fund Advisors now own 3.3 million shares in Barnes & Noble
• Travel writer Pico Iyer settles down in rural Japan

Book links roundup: Kobo design update, writers favourite love poems, and more

• Preview Kobo’s next iOS app update
• The Guardian asks Jeanette Winterson, A.S. Byatt, and other writers to share their favourite love poems
• Despite tattooing the word “patience” on her body, novelist Stacey May Fowles can hardly wait to publish her next book
• Author Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer thinks CBC Canada Reads lacks literary merit
• Flavorwire’s top 10 greatest kisses in literature

Book links roundup: Police sketches of literary characters, Bookninja’s send-off, and more

• The Atlantic on literary characters’ police composite sketches
• The National Post bids farewell to Bookninja
• Hot off her CBC Canada Reads win Carmen Aguirre performs her one-woman show based on her memoir Something Fierce
• Extremely close and incredibly personal: The Guardian‘s Q&A with Jonathan Safran Foer
• American Booksellers Association’s subsidiary IndieCommerce drops Amazon-published books