Selected Literary Tweets
- Today’s challenge: See how many times you can drop “Kafkaesque” into conversation before somebody slaps you.
- Reading Dreiser’s An American Tragedy. So this is how Stifler meets his end…
- Technically, it’s a novello if there’s a bookmark sticking out of it.
- I wish Sam Lipsyte would write a book called Fifty Shades of Gary.
- Hysterical realism is one of the most common symptoms of greatamericanovelitis.
- Critics tend to dismiss Cheever’s foray into hip hop, but I think The Wapshot Chronic is some of his best work.
- NaFiWaToBrUpYoUnNoInCaCoMo (National Find Ways to Bring Up Your Unfinished Novel in Casual Conversation Month)
- I don’t appreciate being called a writer of midget stories. I’d prefer if you used the term little fictions.
- Maybe more people would visit the library if there was a small area set aside for laser tag.
- For a limited time only all Pushcart nominations can be redeemed for a half-price appetizer at P.F. Chang’s.
- The term “metafiction” feels dated. I say we change the name to metta world fiction.
- SS writers should put out special holiday collections. Who wouldn’t want to read Santa’s Workshop in Bad Decline?
- When I say I write juvenile fiction, I mean I write fiction about the rapper Juvenile. The fact that it’s for children is incidental.
- New publishing strategy: hollow out the center of the book and fill it with a small prize, like a tin whistle or matchbox car.
