Ayelet Waldman storms on Twitter over 'Notable' New York Times neglect

Author unleashes stream of apoplectic tweets after her novel Love and Treasure is not included on the newspaper’s list of 2014’s literary highlights

There’s something about the web that brings out the worst in authors, whether it’s Alain de Botton’s in response to a bad review (“I will hate you till the day I die and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you make”) or, more recently, the teddy-bear detective affair (check the comments).

But the latest internet author meltdown comes courtesy of Ayelet Waldman, esteemed American novelist, author of the recent novel Love and Treasure, and the writer who brought down an avalanche of criticism when she admitted she loved her husband more than her children. The New York Times said that, in Love and Treasure, she “sustains her multiple plot lines with breathless confidence and descriptive panache, fashioning complex personalities caught up in an inexorable series of events”; the Wall Street Journal that the novel was “thoughtful, expansive”.

I am really not dealing well with having failed to make the @nytimes notable book list. Love & Treasure is a fucking great novel IISSM.

@susannah_scott nah. I was honest. Am not ashamed.

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