Link-O-Rama: Back from the Dead Like Rebecca DeWinter Edition

Links I've starred from my google reader over the past few weeks for your perusial pleasure:

Zombies are the new vampires:

March of the zombie

By Anne Billson. Once confined to geeky horror films, the living dead are lumbering back into mainstream movies - and even a Jane Austen novel. When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth." Hell must be filling up, because that tag line to the 1978 film Dawn of the Dead now seems eerily prescient. Zombies have long been a popular...
from guardian.co.uk home | guardian.co.uk

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Retaliating against Kanye West's book-backlash with a festival of literary CAKES (h/t ben)"

Sunday Sweets: Reading Rocks

.Or to put it in his own words,"Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph."That's good, Kanye, since it's a right pain to get a book to even hold a pen, much less autograph itself.Anyhoo, after banging my head against the desk and weeping...

from Cake Wrecks

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Book Expo of America blah blah:

Publishing: The Sequel

In a stunt intended to spark a dialogue about the future of publishing-during a time of handwringing in the industry-editing,...

from The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories

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This sounds cool:

Jezebooks: Sarah Waters [Kick-Lit]

If you haven't read any Sarah Waters? Lady, are you in for a page-turning, spine-tingling, word-smithing, sexy treat! Four words: lesbian historical ghost stories. Sarah waters describes her work as 'lesbo historical romps,' but while her meticulously-researched, erotic stories of mystery, thrills and the occult do an amazing job of "teasing out le...

from Jezebel - May 29, 2009

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A hilarious pair of blogs about Mr. Darcy:

Attention: Mr. Darcy is Fictional

Mr. Darcy is a fictional character. He is made up. He does not exist. He is part of the bleedin’ Choir Fictional. He’s not pining for the fjords. If he weren’t nailed to the perch written on the page, he just would not be. It’s time to stop declaring some casual acquaintance of Jane Austen’s as “The Real Mr. Darcy.” Just stop it now, because (as Georgette Heyer characters would say) you’re making a cake of yourself.

from AustenBlog . . . she's everywhere

Mr. Darcy Tries to Pick Up a Lady

The cast of The Chaser's War on Everything, a satirical Australian t.v. show will mock, anything, even our Mr. Darcy. This time they ask that eternal question: Do women want a man like Mr. Darcy? In polls women say they do but in real life the resultd are just a bit different (and hysterically funny.) Is there nothing sacred left in this life?

from Jane Austen Today - May 28, 2009 (4 days ago)

The end. Go read!