A weekly collection of storytelling links.
Best enjoyed with coffee or tea on your Sunday morning, afternoon, or evening.
This week's edition of The Sunday News is brought to you by iPhone apps, feminism, and Pinterest.
→ The Trillium Book Awards happened this week. Alice Munro won her third award and announced (another) retirement from writing. [x]
→ Children of the 90's, rejoice! There is now a Bill Nye the Science Guy app for your iPhone. The app celebrates the 20th anniversary of his television show. Feel old yet? [x]
→ In some terribly disturbing news, Vice published a fashion spread of female writer suicides. The photos have been taken down from the website, but you can still see them (and read about why the fashion spread was a terrible idea) on Jezebel. [x]
→ The Feminist Press has published a collection of reproduced zines and flyers, among other things, from the 1990's punk feminist movement, Riot Grrrl. Check out an interview with Johanna Fateman and Kathleen Hanna about The Riot Grrrl Collection. [x]
→ This article claims that "honest sex scenes in books will stop teens learning from porn." Discuss. [x]
→ Hilarious: Write the great American novel in 10 steps. [x]
→ A woman is using Pinterest to write fiction. Her board, My Imaginary Well-Dressed Toddler, features pictures of children in designer clothing with small, fictional excerpts to go with each one. [x]
→ A vintage, signed copy of The Cat in the Hat disappeared from the children's hospital it belonged to in 1992, only to return earlier this year. [x]
→ "It Isn't Where You Write, But Who You Write With" by Eric Smith - a reflective piece on how having a writing community can help even solitary writers. [x]
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