Literary Twitterati: only one week this year without a woman at the top of the book charts

Five Books That Dump You into a Pit of Despair http://t.co/ZdYOeSireP @tordotcom pic.twitter.com/onyszp0Uj7

— Electric Literature (@ElectricLit) August 24, 2015

Expect 100 of reviews of Morrissey's novel to open by quoting Handsome Devil:

"There's more to life than books you know but not much more"

— Sinéad Gleeson (@sineadgleeson) August 23, 2015

Dear Jonathan Franzen: No, women don’t “need” to go looking for a villain — and you are not a victim http://t.co/DJVyroztOy via @Salon

— Nuala O'Connor (@NualaNiC) August 22, 2015

One of the best author interviews I've seen on Workshy Fop website - Darran Anderson talks about Imaginary Cities... http://t.co/mhKydzUqZg

— Sam Mills (@sammillsauthor) August 21, 2015

The moment when you realize that Polish ojciec 'father' and Irish oide 'foster-father/teacher' come from the same root.#Philology!

— Gerard Hynes (@Gerard_K_Hynes) August 21, 2015

When he enlisted, Tolkien’s son Michael, put down his father’s profession as ‘Wizard’.

— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) August 20, 2015

There has been only one week, in all of 2015 to date, when a woman was not at the top of the Irish book charts. So now.

— Eithne Shortall (@eithneshortall) August 11, 2015