Literary Links

Here are a few items of interest I found on blogs and news sites:

* Isak discusses and links to an article by a Native American writer who writes of her encounter with Sherman Alexie, an author she both loathed and admired.

* Simply Fred Smith talks about how to balance your day job and writing dreams.

* Novelist Bernice McFadden was headed to Austin for the Black Book Festival and instead ended up with this hilarious travel nightmare story titled "12 Hours of Murphy's Law."

* Fiction author Aimee Bender has a nonfiction piece about failed marriage in the Washington Post Summer Reading section.

* The LA Times interviews Percival Everett about his new novel, I Am Not Sidney Poitier.