Litblog’s weekly tweets -
by Mr Monkey
- About to start ‘House of the Mosque’ by Kader Abdolah. thanks @canongatebooks http://bit.ly/4yg5S8 #
- Finished Lauren Grodstein’s ‘A Friend of the Family’ - but can’t get it out of my head. A very fine novel. http://bit.ly/8UYJm0 #
- Colm Toibin Wins Costa Novel of 2009 for ‘Brooklyn’
http://bit.ly/6tqGcW # - First novel read this year ‘ The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro’ by Antonio Tabucchi - superb. http://bit.ly/4YnOxw #
- The Guardian has an extract from Toibin’s ‘Brooklyn’
http://bit.ly/5AVAzB # - Lengthy review of Orhan Pamuk’s ‘The Museum of Innocence’ in the LRB
http://bit.ly/7e8oIy # - BookFox looks forward to some of the short-story collections coming out in 2010http://bit.ly/4pty0m #
- The translation of Herta Muller’s nobel prize speech http://bit.ly/6tKgMm #
- Patricia Engel’s debut, VIDA, is another short story collection to look forward to this year: http://bit.ly/154pfm RT @seanjcostello #
- 50 books you’ll want to read in 2010 according to bookmunch (but just two women on the list…) http://bit.ly/8HRFIz #
- “Today you would be hard put to find Indian fiction in English that anybody would want banned” - Open Magazine http://bit.ly/5069n3 #
- 2010 Best Translated Book Award: Fiction Longlist http://bit.ly/7adErg #
- BBC radio examines Bolano mania - http://bit.ly/5sT8jh which looks set to continue with ‘Nazi Literature in the Americas’ #
- “Dr Lustucru’s wife was not particularly talkative. But he beheaded her anyway, thinking …” Helen Oyeyemi short story http://bit.ly/80LKPr #
- Granta has an extract from soon-to-be-published ”The Unnamed” by Joshua Ferrishttp://bit.ly/5kYIP5 #
- Put your favourite writers on the Gnod world literature maphttp://bit.ly/52F4mT #
- Michael Chabon calls Peter Straub’s A DARK MATTER “a masterpiece.” | http://bit.ly/6MUHUH http://bit.ly/60JpL9 RT @doubledaypub #
- That age-old lesson - don’t complain about your reviews. The latest installment - Jeffrey Meyers http://bit.ly/51piKh #
- Family of Philip K. Dick threaten Google with legal action over use of ‘nexus’ http://bit.ly/8KsDq6 #
- Isaiah Berlin on Tolstoy (pdf) ‘The Hedgehog and the fox’ http://bit.ly/8nGxAM (via Ready Steady Book http://bit.ly/6k5HoR) #
- Looks fun! RT @thebookseller @HoraceBent: “Bent’s InvisiBooks” quiz. Good luck one and all ;P http://bit.ly/8lr8hm RT @TheOrwellPrize #
- Fiction Desk reviews Bolaño’s ‘Nazi Literature in the Americas’ http://bit.ly/8mGml2 #
- But what’s the best Bolaño novel to start with? #
- Thanks @stuartevers & @fabiofernandes - it’s a split then between 2666 and The Savage Detectives #
- ‘Second Readings’ by Eileen Battersby looks interesting http://bit.ly/5ZYxJq published by @LibertiesPress #
- Really enjoyed the city-lit Berlin guide - a travel guide, but also a fine read regardless of your travel plans: http://bit.ly/5Ga0OB #
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