Blog catapults Japan’s new literary star: Mieko Kawakami, a former bar hostess and bookstore clerk, was just another obscure singer until she started a blog. Her poetic, street-wise writing stood out so starkly among Internet diaries in Japan — which, like those around the world, tend to be more informative or gossipy than narrative — that she is now Japan’s biggest literary star. [MSNBC]
Interview: Peter Hobbs: The author of The Short Day Dying, who unexpectedly became a writer during a long illness, cautions against sentimentality among storytellers. [New Statesman]
Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Science Fiction Writer, Dies: Arthur C. Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since 1956. He was 90. [NYT]
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