Links where’er you go

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s David Hiltbrand sits down with Edward Conlon, the author of the highly acclaimed police memoir BLUE BLOOD.

Patrick Anderson’s latest thriller column looks at one of my favorite books of the year, Mo Hayder’s THE DEVIL OF NANKING. He’s less impressed than I was at her handling of two disparate stories, but what can you do.

The Glasgow Herald actually includes a crime fiction column! Allan Laing rounds up the latest by Lee Child, Martin Cruz Smith, Ed McBain, Walter Mosley, Tom Bradby and Giles Blunt.

William Kent Krueger, the author of the Cork O’Connor series, describes his writing day for the Washington Times. (link from the Crime Fiction Dossier)

One of my favorite features continues over at Bankrate.com, where authors discuss their financial acumen. The latest one to do so is Randy Wayne White, who “squandered his advance” by not investing in anything.

Mystery writer Arkady Vanier, who wrote detective novels with his brother Georgy, died in his native Russia at the age of 75 (third item.)

Orion Books is switching things around a little bit — Managing Director Malcolm Edwards is moving over to helm Wiedenfeld & Nicholson, while Lisa Milton will take over Orion — and report to Edwards.

Most of my fellow litbloggers have already reported on the Baby Orange Prize, but I’ll link to the shortlist nonetheless, if only to wonder why Nell Freudenberger’s considered to be a good candidate to be an emerging writer when she’s already received so much prior attention.

Speaking of the shortlist, Diana Evans graduated from East Anglia, one of the most reknowned places for creative writing in the UK. Why is it so good and where did its rep come from? The Independent attempts to find out.

A recent memorial at University of Iowa campus paid tribute to Frank Conroy, the writer and former director of the Writers’ Workshop who died recently.