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.

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

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.

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Audio interview with Christos Tsiolkas, whose 'The Slap' sounds like a great novel http://bit.ly/bR4T3J # Just got Adam Thirlwell's 'Politics' – which is worth the cover price for the first line alone http://bit.ly/bNxVG5 # "As Moshe tried,gently, to tighten the pink fluffy handcuffs surrounding his girlfriend's wrists, he noticed a tiny frown." # Before Thirlwell's […]