The ten finalists for the 3% translated book award – http://bit.ly/aTjcvt # The Elegant Variation’s summer of debuts – http://bit.ly/9xhg76 # New post up at the TMO book blog – ‘The House of the Mosque’ by Kader Abdolah http://bit.ly/cjwXbi # Tim Parks on the ‘dull new global novel’ http://bit.ly/8X92EC # King Lear, madness and my […]

‘Don’t be one of those writers who sentence themselves to a lifetime of sucking up to Nabokov’ – Geoff Dyer http://bit.ly/d51hP4 # Powered by Twitter Tools.

TMO review of Anne Enright’s ‘The wig my father wore’ – http://bit.ly/bbFXiL # rt @maudnewton Recordings of F. Scott Fitzgerald reading Shakespeare: http://bit.ly/cdBBpF (via @Condalmo) # Book Fox on the predictive power of book reviews http://bit.ly/bYJaAi # Lizzy Siddal is accepting questions for a Kader Abdolah interview, author of ‘House of the Mosque’ http://bit.ly/aLPoJZ # […]

#Amis “But it was just the empty Echo of repetition, of a book rewritten; from his father still only silence” http://bit.ly/bi8Cbi # Powered by Twitter Tools.

‘Sleeping with John Updike’ – a short story by Julian Barnes http://bit.ly/7v5Z3b # BBC interview with ‘House of the Mosque’ author Kader Abdolah http://bit.ly/8ICtGQ # 50 Penguin authors were asked what their favourite book was, and four of them chose titles by… http://is.gd/6ZkhP RT @TheOrwellPrize # “often murders happen in the kitchen in the morning. […]

Edgar Allen Poe’s philosophy of furniture (via biblioklept and Roberto Bolaño http://bit.ly/6S5Vwr # Contrary to the expectations of some, the internet has boosted the written word – http://bit.ly/75spSe # A nice summary! RT @thecreativepenn The Future of Publishing: A Round Up from Experts http://short.to/13t1v via @tomcolvin RT @BiblioGeek # Evan Maloney remembers McCabe’s ‘The Butcher […]

Not since Snow White have mirrors been so vocal – the new Martin Amis novel ‘The Pregnant Widow’ http://bit.ly/4mHWua # ‘So who is Perkus Tooth anyway?’ – Jonathan Lethem answers http://bit.ly/7bAvO1 # Good interview with David Vann, over @writerspet http://bit.ly/4V4uBN # B.R.Myers is not impressed by the ‘strangled work-driven ways’ of E.Annie Proulx http://bit.ly/6iWtg4 # […]

About to start ‘House of the Mosque’ by Kader Abdolah. thanks @canongatebooks http://bit.ly/4yg5S8 # Finished Lauren Grodstein’s ‘A Friend of the Family’ – but can’t get it out of my head. A very fine novel. http://bit.ly/8UYJm0 # Colm Toibin Wins Costa Novel of 2009 for ‘Brooklyn’ http://bit.ly/6tqGcW # First novel read this year ‘ The […]

I don’t want to live in her world, but suspect that in fact I do. This is what makes her a great writer. http://bit.ly/5g7V7A # Powered by Twitter Tools.