All day, all night, just the links

Julie Burchill, fresh from penning a book for teen girls, picks her top ten books for teens.

And she gives special props to one of my favorites, the Sadler’s Wells

novels. I cannot count how many times I have read and reread the first

three volumes, even though I know damn well that “Sebastian Scott” is

supposed to be Benjamin Britten and if it were real life, he wouldn’t

be pining for the ballerina, that’s for sure…

Guo Jingming, a popular Chinese author whose book sold over a million copies has lost a case brought against him for plagiarizing another Chinese novelist.

Mark Sarvas brilliantly compares and contrasts two new (well, one’s not out till April) fiction efforts starring an elderly Sherlock Holmes. Add Caleb Carr’s upcoming book to the mix, and the trend just keeps on going….

NPR rememberes Joseph Hansen and his Dave Brandstetter novels, the first two which have just been reissued by the University of Wisconsin Press. Also, Hansen himself was a blogger–for a few months, anyway.

Prudy Taylor Board is a CRC Press editor by day, and now a newly minted mystery novelist the rest of the time. The Palm Beach Post meets her.

Although their website doesn’t have the news listed, Jiro Kimura reports that Walter Mosley won the Nero Wolfe Award over the weekend.

If for some reason you’re inclined to read David Foster Wallace’s now-infamous essay about lobsters this summer, the Rake’s come up with the goods.

The New York Observer goes a little nuts this week with book reviews, as they examine the latest by those including Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson and Alan Hollinghurst.

Want to know what are the greatest Canadian speeches? No? Well Dennis Gruending has compiled a list of them anyway.

And finally, I’m really, really curious about  this particular play. You know, just because.