Literary Twitterati: from Elmo to xo's

Our weekly round-up of tweets from the book world


My Kickstarter's inspired by the fact that when Joyce died, he left an estate valued at £908; a single letter by him later sold for $445,000

A collection of classic stories about the theatre from #TNYarchive: http://t.co/HYKAwS43S5

Need your Beckett fix for tonight? Try "Waiting for Elmo" https://t.co/3wK8AV7pOj

RT @Litblog: Chuck Palahniuk's views on gender in fiction haven't evolved since 2005 http://t.co/0CT7k9iIC5

"Is it too late to nominate a candidate for novel of the summer?" Nope, not too late at all @nytimesbooks http://t.co/9ZPTLQ0MBW #wtf

Going to buy Lean Cullinan's debut this week. Staggeringly harsh reviews like the one in Saturday's @irishtimes often have that effect.

Don't think of it as a novel. Think of it as a chance to retroactively win every argument you have ever walked away from.

All right I'm just going to come right out and say it: when people sign xoxo at the end of texts etc I don't get what the o means.

1st stop the stunning Isles of Scilly (Sea Areas Sole, Lundy & Fastnet) http://t.co/pVwigeNQbU via @wordpressdotcom #maevebinchytravelaward