Welcome to Huki Links – highlighting some of our favorite literary links and more over the past week from across the ‘net!  For more about Huki-Links, check out our inaugural post.

The best part of the “huki” is that we all pull together, if you find any fun or interesting book related links/articles please feel free to share them via comments or contact us!

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Links covering the week of August 28 – September 3, 2012*

Self-Lovin

-Read our review of the final book in the Kevin Corvelli series: Douglas Corleone’s Last Lawyer Standing. [HBB]

Hawaii Literary

-The Surf’s Up For Kimo books and award-winning Plenty Saimin are now available as e-books! Check ’em out… [Island Paradise Publishing]

-A truly excellent read about how one boy helped to create Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library. [Notes From the Zeitgeist]

-Nice article on Frances H. Kakugawa’s KAPOHO: Memoir of a Modern Pompeii. [Discover Nikkei]

-Chad Blair writes about Hawaii Mormon book A Chosen People, A Promised Land by Hokulani Aikau. [Civil Beat]

-Hawaii Literacy’s 4th Annual Pau Hana Block Party revs up this Thursday! Support literacy the best way: with a drink (or two, or five). Drive safe! [Facebook]

-In case you missed them, a nice round-up of UH Press authors’ online conversations. [UH Press Blog]

Last Lawyer Standing author Douglas Corleone (see our review in Self-Love) talks about writing and research in Hawaii. [Tina’s Fascination Files]

-The Great BR Year of the Dragon 100-word contest keeps rocking and rolling. [Bamboo Ridge]

-Hawaii, other states reach settlement with publishers over e-book price fixing. [Pacific Business News]

-Isle author sets novel in boggy Florida, 1949. [Star-Advertiser] (requires subscription)

-Windward celebrates library grand opening. [UH News]

General Literary

-The Publishing Process in GIF Form [Nathan Bransford]

-Reading and Zoning Out: ‘When the Mind Wanders, the Eyes Stay the Course’ [The American Scholar]

-Former HBB contributor Dawn Sueoka writes about “Hidden harmonies in John Cage’s ‘Empty Words'” [jacket2]

-Listen to a Lost Interview With Ray Bradbury. [Vulture]

-Fall Books Preview 2012: 15 Books to Read. [The Daily Beast]

-Can self-publishing buy respect? [Salon]

-Best bookstores on Tumblr. [Galley Cat]

-The Best of Condescending Literary Pun Dog. [BuzzFeed]

-Reading and Guilty Pleasure [The Opinionator]

-Top Three Reasons to Give Away Your Book. [Toby Neal]

-Beautiful Book Art by Cara Barer. [Laughing Squid]

Non-Literary Links

-‘Rail Broke Burial Rules’ by I Respectfully Dissent author Tom Coffman. [Honolulu Weekly]

-President’s grandson honors Queen Liliuokalani. [KITV4]

-Wendie Burbridge is ready for Hawaii Five-0 Season Three! [Five-0 Redux]

-Mainland influence in the making of modern Maui. [Lahaina News]

-Nick Offerman Reads Tweets From Young Female Celebrities Again, Is Surely Building Something Studly. [UPROXX] [gn_divider]

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*some exceptions to the date range may apply