California Literary Review

Alan Moore: With wild hair and even wilder ideas, this reclusive Englishman looks like a figure from one of his hugely influential comic series. But don’t talk to him about Hollywood, especially not the soon-to-be-released Watchmen [Guardian]

Patrick Carman’s print-video hybrid targets readers for a digital age: “Mixing media is a way to bring kids back to books,” says author Patrick Carman, who calls his creation a form of “book evangelism.” [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

The First Suburbanite: But just 25 years later Cheever has largely faded from the literary map. “The Stories of John Cheever” sells about 5,000 copies a year now — not bad, but not the numbers you’d expect from a classic. [NYT]

Martin Amis and his hip coterie of young British novelists: Twenty-five years ago, Martin Amis and his fellow young British novelists hit the commercial bull’s-eye – and we’ve been reading the results ever since [Independent]

Norwegian Nobel Laureate, Once Shunned, Is Now Celebrated: Yet the honoree is not a war hero, nor even a patriot. It is the Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun, who welcomed the brutal German occupation of Norway during World War II and gave his Nobel Prize in Literature as a gift to the Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels. [NYT]

Forgotten authors No. 25: Gavin Lyall: A bit of a man’s man was Gavin Tudor Lyall. In the 1960s, he wrote tales of square-jawed men dodging bullets and doing man things, but his writing style was far from thick-ear. [Independent]