Picador are giving away a proof copy of John Banville’s latest novel The Infinities http://bit.ly/10zA98 # Raymond Chandler’s gin gimlet (an approximation): http://bit.ly/RhFxA RT @MaudNewton # Man Booker longlist announced http://bit.ly/OYbcV # Are the Booker judges an ‘ethnicaly pure, upper middle class cartel’? http://bit.ly/Z2JRG # Giles Coren doesn’t hit back angrily at Mr Barry’s review? […]

“I mean it really should be as close to idling as possible.” Joseph O’Neill on writing http://bit.ly/UOVIU # We like the sound of Bolano’s By Night in Chile http://bit.ly/XB76T # Which UK politician is the obvious choice for novelisation? http://bit.ly/M0XXP # More comments on the ‘Towards a Poetics of Anger’ essay http://bit.ly/sF04g # Unfinished Graham […]

writing has become a weapon http://bit.ly/10vEmi # 10 guidelines for structuring a short story http://bit.ly/xF2Cx # Reviewing the reviewers – the debate continues http://bit.ly/YXDcY # Off now to finish ‘Last train to liguria’ by Christine Dwyer Hickey # that should have been ‘from liguria’ of course – apologies # Extract from Leviathan, winner of the […]

Amazon now in tax dispute with Japan. http://bit.ly/vwb08 RT @roncharles # extract from Mausolée Rouja Lazarova looks back at three generations of women under communism http://bit.ly/Rp48n # July issue of Words Without Borders is on Memory and Lies http://bit.ly/yd1fW # Humble yourself and take the GCSE literature quiz at the BBC http://bit.ly/WC6V0 # Google.it celebrate […]

Hemingway’s “Feast” more moveable than first realized http://bitly.com/jwaKJ # Faulkner trivia – he wanted to use coloured inks in ‘The Sound and the Fury’ to delineate multiple time periods http://bitly.com/S9B0N # William Burroughs and Susan Sontag on meeting Beckett http://bitly.com/i5XoM # Irish novelist Sean O’Reilly interviewed in TMO http://bitly.com/mYAx2 # On MATG, Niven Govinden wants […]

Fragments shored against my ruin: @harmlessfraud takes a look at Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture http://bit.ly/SnaIg # Censoring an Iranian Love Story http://bit.ly/2MbWzZ # Ha Jin talks about the mother of all mother-in-law stories http://bit.ly/ZD1k3 RT @GrantaMag # Wallace had less in common with Eggers and Franzen than he did with Dostoevsky and Joyce http://bit.ly/pbaRb […]

– Metempsychosis, he said, frowning. It’s Greek: from the Greek. That means the transmigration of souls. # – O, rocks! she said. Tell us in plain words. # 9:15AM; “Kingstown pier,” Stephen said. “Yes, a disappointed bridge.” RT @UlyssesSeen # A good introduction to Joyce’s Ulysses, from the TMO archives, for Bloomsday http://bit.ly/G6MW5 # Bloomin’ […]