Literary Twitterati: Alice Munro immortalised in silver

Our weekly round-up of recent literary happenings on Twitter


10 books that taught me to write #FrogMusic: http://t.co/Nw1bP9pySF

Alice Munro immortalised on Canadian currency - acclaimed author appears on a silver collector's coin http://t.co/Gh0riB6Ax5

Flannery O'Connor, who would've been 89 today, on the realism at the heart of fiction and the reader's blind spots http://t.co/Xz3R1VLTra

Hear Paula Meehan, Dermot Bolger & Enda Wyley bring poetry to life in this @BryanJOBrien feature on @IrishTimes. http://t.co/UWbGCTrsxK

It looks like Paddy is ignoring them! pic.twitter.com/W1XrfZXRR9

Defy Chris Grayling and send a book to a UK prisoner by concealing it inside a nail file. #GraylingsLaw

Author Colum McCann reads a limerick! http://t.co/3kCICuN9Fc #limerick #limerickcityofculture

i always find it hard to imagine that jane austen, vikings & dinosaurs all happened in colour. @LiteraryMermaid @theretronaut

@stingingfly I like this: "Writing practically demands that one exhibit a high degree of selfishness." Art too.

Jay Griffiths' 'A Love Letter from a Stray Moon' is an extraordinary book: rich, passionate, uncompromising. I was bowled over by it.