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The TMO Litblog

The TMO litblog is a collection of short posts, reviews, and tweets dedicated to literary fiction and book news.

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

Booker prize longlist announced – http://bit.ly/b9nTEk # Reading Amis & McEwan – leaves me feeling that I and the world have been made smaller and meaner – Josipovici http://bit.ly/d3JlWZ # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

They Kill Us for Sport – Lear, Happy Endings, and Niccolò Ammaniti's The Crossroads http://bit.ly/cJ6GTk # Powered by Twitter Tools.

They Kill Us for Sport – Lear, Happy Endings, and Niccolò Ammaniti’s The Crossroads

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Daisy Godwin’s lament about the lack of redmption in so many of today’s novels – made whilst chairing the Orange Prize judging panel – put her in good company. Samuel Johnson famously endorsed  Nahum Tate‘s sugar coated revision of Shakespeare’s King Lear. The play had been too bleak, by far, for a Restoration audience, prompting Tate […]

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

I think only people who dislike a genre should be allowed to write in it – Joseph O'Connor interviewed by Peter Murphy http://bit.ly/9OQ6yj # If you're on facebook, try following Dublin's Project Arts Centre here http://bit.ly/c0odDL # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Great list of 2010's soon to be published titles (including Franzen, Twain, and Kundera) http://bit.ly/bqsuel # Hugo Hamilton on Greg Baxter's A preparation for death, in the Irish Times http://tinyurl.com/2fukcgd RT @ClionaLewis # The Irish Times looks at the boom in international crime novels – no mention of Antonio Tabucchi though http://bit.ly/9wlAHQ # The BBC […]

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

High praise for Greg Baxter's 'A Preparation for Death' from Asylum http://bit.ly/cnqY9e # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Biblioklept's very useful guide on how to read Ulysses http://bit.ly/cocZDs # José Saramago, master of what-ifs http://bit.ly/bMTUtm # 5 great books to geat you through the world cup http://bit.ly/cjFKzU # 5 great books to get you through the world cup http://bit.ly/cjFKzU # just got a copy of 'Stories', edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio […]

5 Great Books to get you through the World Cup

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Most of the drama of this year’s World Cup in South Africa seems to be taking place off the pitch (thanks to the likes of John Terry, Raymond Domenech, and Nicolas Anelka), but that just serves to point out what Catalan  novelist Manuel Vazquez Montalban (creator of the excellent Pepe Carvallho detective novels) put his finger […]

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Essay on the Picaresque Novels of Martin Amis, Richard Russo, Michael Chabon, and others http://bit.ly/dwNKIf # Paul Auster explains why Philip Roth is wrong about the future of the novel – http://bit.ly/bSj0UZ via biblioklept # RT @aravindadiga My review of Beatrice and Virgil, the new novel by Yann Martel: http://is.gd/ctMHB RT @seanjcostello # Madeleine had […]

Litblog’s weekly tweets –

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Yann Martel explains why artistic licence should be taken with the Holocaust – http://bit.ly/9gjlQw # David Bellos's introduction from The Ghost Rider by Ismail Kadare http://bit.ly/9pTnWK # Powered by Twitter Tools.