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The TMO Litblog

The TMO litblog is a collection of short posts, reviews, and tweets dedicated to literary fiction and book news.

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Audio interview with Christos Tsiolkas, whose 'The Slap' sounds like a great novel http://bit.ly/bR4T3J # Just got Adam Thirlwell's 'Politics' – which is worth the cover price for the first line alone http://bit.ly/bNxVG5 # "As Moshe tried,gently, to tighten the pink fluffy handcuffs surrounding his girlfriend's wrists, he noticed a tiny frown." # Before Thirlwell's […]

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

TMO review of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls http://bit.ly/92zgSU # From Vintage Irish Book Covers, '60s Mercier paperbacks: http://is.gd/c2pIU (via @irishpublishing) RT @STomaselli # some great events lined upin Dublin for @dubwritersfest, if you're in that neck of the woods (june 1-6) http://bit.ly/9qgVfp # Irish Top Ten Week Ending 09/05/2010 | Irish Publishing News http://bit.ly/bKEiIu […]

The Country Girls – by Edna O’Brien

Monday, May 10th, 2010

I discovered Samuel Beckett’s Murphy after a Friday-night friend boozily extolled its dark and comic virtues (‘he wants his ashes to be flushed down the jacks of the Abbey theatre, but instead they get spilled in a barfight!’).  In similar circumstances I’ve had the good luck to stumble upon great books by writers as varied […]

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Like the idea of the 1book twitter club, kicking off with Neil Gaiman's American gods @1B1T2010 http://bit.ly/a4AEat # #1b1t here's an tmo archive interview with neil gaiman talking about American Gods http://bit.ly/VLEgq # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

Exclusive exxcerpt from the new Benjamin Black (Banville novel) Elegy for April – http://bit.ly/avQn6E # Whatever people say I am, Alan Sillitoe 1928-2010: http://is.gd/bHvAf RT @3ammagazine # Lionel Shriver – America's best writer? http://bit.ly/dpFC5n # You can read Bulbjerg, a short story by Naja Marie Aidt, at the Pen World Voices festival site http://bit.ly/cbM3ct # […]

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Orange Prize shortlist announced http://bit.ly/bq2qQT # looking for the left-wing in Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy http://bit.ly/cvzvF3 # (on Beckett) "while all around him hacks and inattentive culture-vultures chatter about 'the absurd' " http://bit.ly/b7SJzB # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

In case you missed it – The New Yorker has published Bolaño's The Prefiguration of Lalo Cura http://bit.ly/d3l79K # Novelist Peter Murphy hits nail on head in panel discussion about Ian McEwan's Solar http://bit.ly/cMf7PH # Michael Weingrad ponders why there is no Jewish Narnia – http://bit.ly/biABtZ # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

"How the Paperback Novel Changed Popular Literature" http://bit.ly/blsOSk Smithsonian Mag on #writing #reading #publishing RT @dbschlosser # TMO Review of Louise Welsh's Naming the Bones http://bit.ly/ckxEd7 # Voting is open for the best author blogs, over at completely novel @authorblogs http://bit.ly/c2C3Nh # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Naming the Bones – Louise Welsh

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

The more I think back on Louise Welsh’s latest novel, Naming the Bones, which I finished just over two weeks ago, the more quietly impressed I am by it.  And if that seems like damning with faint praise, nothing could be further from the truth.  While the novel has a narrative arc that brings its […]

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Philip Pullman talking about 'enhanced editions' and the future of publishing http://bit.ly/dk2guG # Doubt in the novel – Brian Moore's Cold Heaven http://bit.ly/9JW5Ct # Orhan Pamuk reads Nabokov's My Russian Education http://bit.ly/bSLv1B # Margaret Atwood on how she was sucked into the Twittersphere like Alice down the rabbit hole http://bit.ly/agzWEd RT @SanSip in reply to […]