after a thumbs up from @harmlessfraud, I’m going to read ‘Under the Volcano’ by Malcolm Lowry # Nick Cave talks to the Guardian about ‘The Death of Bunny Munro’ http://bit.ly/wnUND # From the TMO archives – John Banville and the reigning spirit of the novel, thanatos http://bit.ly/oOBUy # Mark Sarvas writes about E. Annie Proulx’s [...]

Man Booker shortlist is announced http://bit.ly/1fNsw # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Fintan O’Toole talking about Flann O’Brien http://bit.ly/4lOOeB # And O’Toole’s article on Flann O’Brien – Oblomov in Dublin http://bit.ly/1hjFD # ‘I still think if a book does not confront the crisis of purpose in contemporary life then it must go to the bin’ http://bit.ly/qFUCW # Powered by Twitter Tools.

publishers don’t like short stories unless they are VERY high concept, or by someone very strange, famous or Indian http://bit.ly/vMgZ2 # using poetry to sell cars – the Ford Faberge’ that never was http://bit.ly/vMgZ2 # “surely everyone (probably even Dan Brown) can agree that beyond high and low art there is also pure shit” http://bit.ly/qOOwU [...]

RT @tweetmeme Cal – Bernard McLaverty | Is there a book in this blog? http://bit.ly/Ky1qk # “it’s so serious, it’s so morally weighted that it could kill a novel”. Ian McEwan’s next subject: climate change http://bit.ly/9IDpv # RT @tweetmeme The Engineer of Human Souls | Is there a book in this blog? http://bit.ly/nJG1g # #bookgiveaway [...]

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 [...]