Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (December 2nd)

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Looking for some interesting reading to get you through the week? Here are some literary links from around the web to check out:

Kobo Bryant retired from the NBA with a poem (is a chapbook forthcoming?)

Are book critics sexist if they give a negative review to a popular book by a woman writer?

Buzzfeed picks the best fiction books of the year

Slate picks the most overlooked books of the year

But don’t forget the good books coming out this December!

Marlon James talks about how writers of color are made to pander to the tastes of middle class white women

The Millions provides some gifts suggestions for your literary friends and family

Horror writing is good for the soul

Poet Christopher Middleton has passed away

Is J.K. Rowling pulling a George Lucas on Harry Potter?

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