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Archive for May, 2009

Litblog’s weekly tweets -

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Blogtrotter review of Michel Faber’s ‘The Fire Gospel’
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Litblogs on Kindle? A lot of fuss about nothing, according to the Literary Saloon
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In case you were searching for an online comic-book adaptation of Joyce’s Ulysses
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And from the same people, as we run up to bloomsday it’s worth following @UlyssesSeen #
Picador make Jon Ronson’s Men [...]

Litblog’s Literary tweets - 18th - 24th May

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

The Times takes a look at Faber’s history, as the publisher celebrates its 80th birthdayhttp://bit.ly/TrXZa #
The telegraph turns great literature into tweetshttp://bit.ly/13tw5a #
Ruth Padel is the first female Oxford professor of poetryhttp://bit.ly/BDtZl #
Trailer for Art Spiegelman new book ‘Be a nose’a rare glimpse at the secret scribblings of an American original.http://bit.ly/6WgLC #
People’s Choice Award goes [...]

The Acid House by Irvine Welsh

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Frank O’Connor, one of the masters of the form, was repeatedly asked what differentiated a short story from a novel or novella, and over the course of his career he come up with some interesting answers. For example, interviewed by the Paris Review he suggested that one of the crucial dividing lines was not length, [...]