@BooksLIVESA Weekly Tweets 2012-02-26
- Last alt Sun Read, no.5: Is it "the beginning of the end" for Downton Abbey? http://t.co/FAYSHLdZ #
- Alt Sun Read no.4: Barney Rosset, the man behind some of greatest 20th century writers, dies at age 89: http://t.co/xZB9kPuF #
- Alt Sun Read/Watch no.3: @Slate presents an uncut 84-minute interview with David Foster Wallace: http://t.co/bfi0nz8X #
- Alt Sun Read no.2: @NPR features an excerpt from Nathan Englander's new collection, What We Talk About When We… http://t.co/WxyriabU #
- Alt Sun Read no.1: Syria's Adonis speaks to @TelegraphBooks' Sameer Rahim about poetry and the Arab Spring: http://t.co/ySfn6E11 #
- Sunday Read: Kevin Hartnett Finds Pleasure in Dostoevsky's Stinking Lizaveta http://t.co/8ZOaVrZQ #
- Help share the love of books by celebrating Robin Malan's 5th "rebirthday": http://t.co/CKKJbTQX #
- Die kortlys vir die Sanlamprys vir Jeuglektuur is onlangs bekendgemaak. Wat lees finalis Annelie Ferreira? http://t.co/1mZgK0PK #
- RT @panmacmillansa: Video: Fiona Forde Discusses Her Malema Biography, An Inconvenient Youth http://t.co/t4lcBBkL #
- RT @nbpublishers: Nuwe digbundel deur Petra Muller: Gedigte rondom die gedagte van geel http://t.co/iQjeaibf #
- RT @randomstruik: Podcast: Radio Today Hosts Robert Fridjhon, Author of Caterpillar Seas http://t.co/0pKrJnAi #
- RT @jonathanballpub: Introducing Michael Morris' Portrait of Transition: Apartheid: An Illustrated History http://t.co/ILLOv8xA #
- Fiction Friday: Extract from Everyday is for the Thief by Teju Cole http://t.co/bAt9cdNa #
- Clutton Patsika Reviews 100 Years of Struggle: Mandela's ANC by Heidi Holland http://t.co/gaJNlJkY #
- Maggie van Eeden resenseer Donker plekke saamgestel deur Francois Bloemhof http://t.co/Z2aHoj1k #
- Are books and the internet about to merge? @GuardianBooks says we should be glad: http://t.co/XtsuTQ8K #
- Virago to Release New Book by Acclaimed Biographer, Lyndall Gordon: Divided Lives http://t.co/6aKMU0ud #
- Literary translator Edith Grossman discusses the trade-off between fidelity and meaning and her top 5 books on… http://t.co/PuNmRZtc #
- RT @jacanamedia: Podcast: McIntosh Polela and Maureen Isaacson Discuss My Father, My Monster http://t.co/JZiwablJ #
- RT @jonathanballpub: Tom Stevenson Elaborates on the "Extraordinary" Career of Andrew Feinstein http://t.co/nIam25UQ #
- RT @randomstruik: Paralympic Chic: Athletes Like Oscar Pistorius Add Glamour to Paralympic Sports http://t.co/uxpbYZ9B #
- RT @proteaboekhuis: Foto's dra by tot die verhaal in Reney Warrington se debuutroman, Oktober http://t.co/r5LZfARq #
- RT @lapauitgewers: Wynand Claassen gaan boeke by Bargain Books in I'Langa Mall teken http://t.co/pFjUPC1x #
- Phyllis Green beveel ses reisboeke vir 'n rusbankreis aan http://t.co/Qr45iid2 #
- Take a look at this year's Infecting the City festival programme (pdf download): http://t.co/nEkItGwB #
- Excerpt from Ashraf Khalil's Liberation Square: "The Accidental Dictator" http://t.co/dSpxixVI #
- Caroline Smart Reviews Style Icons: Top South African Designers and their Interiors http://t.co/SCUM0LjZ #
- #FF @SowetanLIVE @Career_Junction @exclusivescoza @mapit @TimesLIVE @SportLIVEsa @BusinessLiveSA @inetbridge @BusinessDayDigi #AvusaDigital #
- Vintage shortlist of oddest book titles, including "Memoirs of a Japanese Chicken Sexer" (via @tymonsmith): http://t.co/RlEfQvHd #
- RT @randomstruik: The Unexploded Boer: Revisiting 1970s Apartheid Through the Eyes of a "Dud" Boer http://t.co/R0hx2V8m #
- JK Rowling Has Deal for New Big People's Novel http://t.co/Vk9l84dF #
- RT @penguinbookssa: Post-Jaipur: Shubnum Khan Reflects on the "Unreal World" of Writing http://t.co/UeQoKCmO #
- RT @jacanamedia: Jacana Releases Teaser Trailer for Lolly Jackson: When Fantasy Becomes Reality http://t.co/LTzgFbbs #
- RT @nbpublishers: Bakkes-broers se gesamentlike bekendstelling van Stoffel op safari en Oepse daisy by Woordfees… http://t.co/N6YVyy2i #
- Published JK Rowling Press Release on Scribd http://t.co/guTN1IBW #readcast #
- Don Makatile and Janet van Eeden Review The Sea of Wise Insects by Terry Westby-Nunn http://t.co/2lR70V7D #
- Let's all welcome @TimeoftheWriter to Twitter! @CCArtsFest #tow12 #
- Love her or loathe her: Best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, talks about creativity: http://t.co/HSmxW4RH #
- RT @uctpress: Video: Eve Annecke Discusses The Rise of Sustainability Philosophy http://t.co/xY7qBeHN #
- RT @jonathanballpub: Podcast: Simon Mann Discusses the Justification of Military Intervention in Foreign Countries http://t.co/HxNoEO3Q #
- Deji Olukotun Offers His Thoughts on Tintin in the Congo Ruling http://t.co/6zrtcwjU #
- RT @randomstruik: Sarah Graham Believes Anyone Can Cook Delicious Food (Plus: Recipe from Bitten) http://t.co/awm4bOhJ #
- Seth Parker Reviews The Best of Getaway Gallery by Cameron Ewart-Smith http://t.co/91wMN9vU #
- Alfred Schaffer resenseer Grond/Santekraam deur Ronelda Kamfer http://t.co/8UTANMBD #
- RT @proteaboekhuis: Video: Afrikaans beïnvloed Nederlander Adriaan van Dis se skryfstyl in Tikkop http://t.co/q0PfMysT #
- A look inside The Gremlins, Roald Dahl's first children's book, illustrated by Disney animators: http://t.co/YuqTYhgN #
- Towards a Literature of "Conflicted Lands": A Conversation with Andrew Feinstein http://t.co/JAbMd237 #
- Bekendstelling van Marzanne Leroux Van der Boon se nuwe roman tydens Woordfees 2012 http://t.co/wRwFNICt #
- The Cambridge History of South African Literature Comes to The Book Lounge http://t.co/wqhvkLmS #
- RT @panmacmillansa: Jonathan Jansen: The Colonial Fantasy of White Minority Owned Land Lives On http://t.co/nomj4dyW #
- RT @nbpublishers: Diek Grobler gesels oor sy illustrasies vir Antjie Krog se Mankepank en ander verse http://t.co/fEuTUF89 #
- RT @siberink: Video: Cormac Cullinan Discusses Why Nature Should Have Rights http://t.co/X3hQi0gd #
- RT @randomstruik: Excerpt from Two Oceans: A Guide to the Marine Life of Southern Africa http://t.co/lu9Hkpb2 #
- Dylan Culhane Reviews Thou Shall Not Use Comic Sans by Sean Adams http://t.co/VuvhFull #
- The Latest in Sylph Editions' Cahiers Series: A Labour of Moles by Ivan Vladislavic http://t.co/rkzZG0W2 #
- New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Colm Toibin explores the relationship between authors and their parents: http://t.co/ug8f1234 #
- Publishers start experimenting with enhanced eBooks, bringing digital storytelling to life: http://t.co/rkdUsEyf #
- Now on Books LIVE! @RicharddeNooy whacks one Proust's way: http://t.co/sWVa4KfB #
- RT @uctpress: Nortin M Hadler Presents Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society http://t.co/I0U0spFm #
- RT @witspress: Somewhere on the Border Opens Tonight at the Baxter Theatre http://t.co/PpcNiUb9 #
- Nadine Gordimer Discusses Dealing with the Past, Giving Up Writing, and Her Next Novel http://t.co/gorZPxmu #
- RT @lapauitgewers: Bekendstelling van In die niks al om deur Rene Bohnen by Skoobs Theatre of Books http://t.co/dzbPkibS #
- RT @randomstruik: Extract from Skeleton Coast: Africa's Last Wilderness by Thorsten Milse http://t.co/8KmrJLuZ #
- RT @randomstruik: Buy a copy of The Official K53 Learner's & Driver's Made Easy from CNA and enter our sms competition and you…… #
- Teju Cole's Acclaimed Open City Now Available in Paperback http://t.co/qirSzk9z #
- Ruth Browne Reviews Heading South, Looking North by Ariel Dorfman http://t.co/VTmp3Y25 #
- Inherited Comic Collection Expected to Fetch $2 Million http://t.co/3x7LfQvi #
- RT @jonathanballpub: How to Write About Sex: Interview with Richard Mason on History of a Pleasure Seeker http://t.co/uYw44rrn #
- In @TheAtlantic: "This Will Make You Smarter" provides a new way to think about thinking: http://t.co/s8K0YH6u #
- Potgooi: Katinka Heyns oor die fliek Eugene Marais: Die Wonderwerker, wat vanjaar verskyn http://t.co/9F5gwDQM #
- Noo Saro-Wiwa Recalls a Racially-charged Trip with the Soweto-based Eagles Biker Gang http://t.co/Ki5omYHg #
- RT @randomstruik: Introducing Mellissa Bushby's Guide to Vegetarian Cooking: The Vegetarian Kitchen http://t.co/lyBCvksM #
- RT @hsrcpress: Mahmood Mamdani To Receive Honorary Degree from University of KwaZulu-Natal http://t.co/anJmXw3t #
- Margaret O'Callaghan Reviews Who Killed Hammarskjold? by Susan Williams http://t.co/y9x3vVUr #
- Leon Rousseau resenseer vyf nuwe kinderboeke http://t.co/wtLKLACj #
- 20 common grammar mistakes that (almost) everyone makes: http://t.co/JgfTcRg4 #
- RT @twodogs_mercury: Ndumiso Ngcobo Comments on the "Resurrection" of Maskandi Artist, Mgqumeni Khumalo http://t.co/6qsrqCXh #
- RT @davidkrut: Art Critic Barry Schwabsky: "There Have Been No Deep Innovations in Art For Forty Years" http://t.co/m4latjqE #
- Programme Revealed for 3rd Annual Knysna Literary Festival (27-29 April 2012) http://t.co/ceGnzTzr #
- RT @ukznpress: Podcast: Nicoli Nattrass Addresses "The Human Question" at UCT Summer School http://t.co/2iTwktcJ #
- RT @jacanamedia: Launch of Lolly Jackson: When Fantasy Becomes Reality at The Mall of Rosebank http://t.co/U9FUBzF0 #
- RT @sunbirdpub: Coming Soon: Michael Brett's Getaway Guide Eastern Cape and Wild Coast http://t.co/m20vQIYf #
- RT @nbpublishers: Wen 'n eksemplaar van Spreuke van CJ Langenhoven http://t.co/NPHyua7Q #
- The long-forgotten story of an autistic man in Mississippi, who crossed paths with William Faulkner: http://t.co/oHrmoJ5a #
- RT @lapauitgewers: Driedubbele leesplesier: Uittreksels uit Onbeplande liefde, Bly myne en Beproefde geluk http://t.co/RBOUWzK3 #
- Myrna Robyns Reviews Savour by Marc Hirschowitz, Karen Alsfine and Estelle Sacharowitz http://t.co/48t7xP40 #
- RT @lapauitgewers: Nuwe boek in Jaco Jacobs se 'n Kas vol monsters-reeks: Die perfekte monster http://t.co/8eyUk1SN #
- Link Love: The Centre for Humanities Research Presents Becoming UWC http://t.co/wSdVDidw #
- Video: How does someone become fluent in 11 languages? (via @ajbruce): http://t.co/C8r7MVGN #
- Stephen Colbert lands deal for children's book, inspired by interview with Maurice Sendak: http://t.co/9bEIIyd5 #
- RT @penguinbookssa: Dinner with Mandela: Heidi Holland Discusses Encounters with the "Jocular" Former President http://t.co/o3XYoFBo #
- RT @witspress: Interview with Loren Landau: Is Diversity Just a "Zeitgeist" Term? http://t.co/M4dxfm4K #
- RT @proteaboekhuis: Reney Warrington hou van blywende karakters vol hartstog http://t.co/CNE2u8cZ #
- Teju Cole Lauds Michael Ondaatje and Discusses the Intellectual Journey of the Novel Form http://t.co/pcN9hvy2 #
- Don Makatile Reviews The Big Stick by Richard de Nooy http://t.co/VOtyfiHh #
- Kerneels Breytenbach skryf oor die boeke wat as inspirasie gedien het vir vanjaar se Oscar-benoemde flieks: http://t.co/CgFZPoci #
- RT @witspress: Isabel Hofmeyr and Jon Hyslop to Deliver Seminars in WISER's WISH Series http://t.co/EhzeHHSs #
- RT @jonathanballpub: Leila Aboulela's Lyrics Alley Now in Paperback http://t.co/BLv4vxo2 #
- Lesley Lokko Contributes to FutureScapes: Read Her Short Story "Twentytwentyfive" http://t.co/IXXkAmux #
- RT @nbpublishers: Potgooi: Maya Fowler gesels oor haar manuskrip op die kortlys vir die Sanlamprys vir Jeuglektuur http://t.co/ZLAjHdPA #
- RT @randomstruik: Introducing the New Novel by Jenny Hobbs: The Miracle of Crocodile Flats http://t.co/ubGxjX6j #
- RT @creativect: Just checked out @sydellewillow's new site. Love + some! http://t.co/PEYd4jYr #
- Seth Parker Reviews Diesel & Dust by Obie Oberholzer http://t.co/EGWHFzu8 #
- Jeanette Ferreira resenseer Alf… http://t.co/HcDKyO1U #
- @LettersOfNote ushers in Foster Wallace's 50th with a letter requesting advice from Don DeLillo: http://t.co/3htsOZhp #
- We, the People invert celebrations for Robert Mugabe's birthday by showing love for SA's constitution: http://t.co/IMqWGJWf #
- "For me, spelling was the gateway drug": Read @BTrovato's open letter to SADTU President, Thobile Notla http://t.co/bNIHPA9n #
- H Rider Haggard's Diary of an African Journey Reveals Meeting with John Dube http://t.co/8jaJAwCo #
- How eBooks have "democratised" publishing: highlights from @OReillyMedia's @toc conference: http://t.co/atFuiSM4 #
- RT @jacanamedia: Launch of Illuminating Love by Hazel Frankel at Love Books http://t.co/yYll3c1y #
- RT @proteaboekhuis: Chris Barnard se 1962-jeugroman, Boela van die blouwater, heruitgegee http://t.co/nvBtnrdS #
- RT @penguinbookssa: The South African Puffin Family Welcomes Time Twisters by Sam Roth http://t.co/W0Iu64iV #
- RT @randomstruik: Interview with Piet Byleveld, Top Cop Who Can't Get Enough of the Chase http://t.co/uslFz8tK #
- Sketching Lisbeth Salander's face: A site that uses police software to sketch book characters has gone viral: http://t.co/ZGgSNTis #
- RT @proteaboekhuis: Nuwe kinderboek: Die land van die groot woordfabriek deur Agnes de Lestrade http://t.co/mnYCEFjZ #
- RT @nbpublishers: NB-Uitgewers teken kontrak om Karin Brynard se nuwe roman, Onse Vaders, uit te gee http://t.co/HlLQnxhj #
- Mai Nasara Wins 2011 Nigeria Prize for Literature for The Missing Clock http://t.co/GQXxAUOr #
- A Killer of a Story: Andrew Donaldson Recommends The Sisters Brothers by Patrick De Witt http://t.co/WpmcPA56 #
- Of Life and Death: A Review of The Piano Cemetery by Jose Luis Peixoto http://t.co/atcmBEyM #
- Quick Review: A Widow's Story by Joyce Carol Oates http://t.co/GhLPCczB #
- Andrew Donaldson Prepares for a Wave of '60s Nostalgia http://t.co/Ri3p561i #
- It would've been David Foster Wallace's 50th today. @Salon_Arts honours his "journalism": http://t.co/vo8qX0YM #
- Caroline Smart Reviews The Southern African: What Flower is That? http://t.co/7aBnlRyx #
- Haidee Muller resenseer Voorbladnooi deur Nelle Dreyer http://t.co/6Npuj63e #
- Solecism of the day: Rob Lowe and the comedic potential of "literally": http://t.co/rKo8FBnB #
- RT @lapauitgewers: "Waarom misdaad?" Steyn du Toit gesels met Francois Bloemhof http://t.co/ye1Z0W6A #
- RT @randomstruik: Two Mouth-watering Recipes from Cakebread, Pudding & Pie http://t.co/xfytiXOw #
- RT @penguinbookssa: An Interview with Ben Trovato: The Unglamorous Life of a Writer http://t.co/2MBwMYX3 #
- Pillowtalk: Mbulelo Mzamane http://t.co/xUcuTy5E #
- Gary Matthews Reviews Luka Jantjie: Resistance Hero of the South African Frontier http://t.co/IOGT0DWe #
- RT @JacanaMedia Preorder Your Copy of Lolly Jackson: When Fantasy Becomes Reality http://t.co/RGCMVOXl #
- In @LRB: Charles Nicholl examines the 15th-century homicide of Domenico Veneziano http://t.co/sDOhOyal #
- @DigestedRead John Crace spits out William Boyd's Waiting for Sunrise: http://t.co/DkCowOCE #
- RT @uctpress: Marie Huchzermeyer Criticises KwaZulu-Natal's Proposed "Slums Act" as Unconstitutional http://t.co/OxRHj4GD #
- RT @proteaboekhuis: Word deel van Reney Warrington se woordboom http://t.co/PCxX5KqW #
- RT @jonathanballpub: Jonny Steinberg: Race Relations Have an Influence on Science and Technology in SA http://t.co/aVdqOy2U #
- Dries Brunt Reviews The Zombie and the Moon by Peter Merrington http://t.co/peQlCMAM #
- Booktown Richmond Set to Host Second JM Coetzee Literary Festival (25-26 May) http://t.co/oHq9iKlR #
- Douwleen Bredenhann resenseer Jy bly my kind deur Lidia Theron http://t.co/srbCr9CW #
- RT @randomstruik: Two Launches for Mugabe and the White African by Ben Freeth http://t.co/eyYVq0Mb #
- RT @openbookfest: Check out the great authors coming to Cape Town for Open Book 2012!… http://t.co/mngeidaQ #
- Firdose Moonda Reviews The Blue Book: A History of Western Province Cricket, 1890–2011 http://t.co/k1NeYS6o #
- The Sun on a Sunday? @charltonbrooker sees irony in the expanding and dying of the tabloid: http://t.co/JEej87c4 #
- RT @lapauitgewers: Potgooi: Maritha Snyman gesels oor die Lekkerlit-kompetisie en Pieter Aspe oor sy lekkerlees-boeke http://t.co/31qPO16h #
- RT @ukznpress: Patrick Bond Believes Political Plans in State of the Nation Address Defeat Climate Justice http://t.co/PBrenkqh #
- RT @randomstruik: Launch of Bitten and Cooking Demo with Sarah Graham at Good Food Studio http://t.co/eeW999Jl #
- A Look at This Year's Open Book Festival (20-24 September 2012) http://t.co/hcp4rxNk #
- Writing by the Light of the Stars: An Interview with Dava Sobel http://t.co/qWUjqmnI #
- William Saunderson-Meyer: There's a Reason Crime Fiction is Doing So Well http://t.co/wxXtQzn2 #
- Tammy February Reviews Turtle Walk by Joanne Macgregor http://t.co/mM4lZNG9 #
- Join Chimurenga this Friday for a screening of Akin Omotoso's Man on Ground: http://t.co/RA5fKUlo #
- Marius Visser resenseer So lig soos klip deur Jacques Pretorius http://t.co/OvY5Npsk #
- View the shortlisted images in Faber's Lord of the Flies cover redesign competition: http://t.co/nHOcpaz7 #
- RT @randomstruik: Coming Soon: National Parks and Nature Reserves by Chris and Mathilde Stuart http://t.co/91WqQB3Q #
- Now on Books LIVE! Diane Awerbuck takes the Proust questionnaire by its horns http://t.co/Z8TTCiUM #
- Video: Ben Okri Reflects on the "Difficulty of Seeing" at Jaipur Lit Fest http://t.co/NU2upz1G #
- RT @witspress: Launch of Loren Landau's Exorcising the Demons Within at Kutlwanong Democracy Centre http://t.co/QdQVyypu #
- RT @nbpublishers: Bekendstelling van Lot se vrou deur Joan Hambidge by The Book Lounge http://t.co/rY4pnRVG #
- What I'm Reading: Sarah Graham http://t.co/WrLG7mA4 #
- William Clarke Reviews One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina http://t.co/IyZbQKbx #
- Last alt Sun Read, no.5: Nabokov and Wodehouse on Alexander Nazaryan's list of writers who loved Dachshunds: http://t.co/oHfbdTNe #
- Alt Sun Read no.4: Maggie Gram explores the unsophisticated pleasure of audio books http://t.co/wrOokHuA #
- Alt Sun Read no.3: Why watching "Stalker" on repeat is necessary for Geoff Dyer's latest creative project: http://t.co/xC4Hhu8X #
- Alt Sun Read no.2: An excerpt from George Pelecanos' latest krimi, "What It Was": http://t.co/Xxoa8ALL #
- Alt Sun Read no.1: Houellebecq's latest protagonist is the first to avoid psychiatric wards and suicide http://t.co/g0gNS1WI #
- Sunday Read: The Story of Franzen & Wallace: Realism, "Mr Difficult" and the "Narcissistic Jerk" http://t.co/P3pQ2PmQ #
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