April 9: Special Follow-Ups Edition

The Neglected Books Page has posted the best appreciation I've seen of the late novelist Louis Auchincloss (PMD, January 28). I enjoy the fact that Auchincloss called the Bushes, his social peers, "a big family of shits" (I'm laughing just typing that).

http://neglectedbooks.com/?p=333

Cameroonian novelist Leonra Miano, outraged by the foreword to the American translation of her Dark Heart of the Night (PMD, March 19, April 2), will see it removed from subsequent printings:

http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/201004a.htm#rk6

As literary hoaxes go (PMD, March 3, March 16), this new one is a doozy:

http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/this-conversation-never-happened

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/04/more-counterfeit-interviews.html

Here is more background on Karl Marlantes's Vietnam novel Matterhorn (PMD, April 9):

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-08/the-last-great-vietnam-novel/

Where the Long Tail Ends looks in detail at the 1973 thriller The Killing Kind, directed by Curtis Harrington (PMD, April 2):

http://wherethelongtailends.com/archives/the-movie-night-diaries-the-killing-kind

Not all octogenarian jazz tenor saxophonists are as famous as Sonny Rollins (PMD, April 7). Chicago great Eddie Johnson has passed away at 89:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-live-0408-johnson-20100408,0,646149.column