Literary Twitterati: from Bronte google doodles to the Hardy Boys

Our weekly round-up of tweets from the book world.

<br/> Google helps to celebrate Charlotte's 198th birthday with this great Google doodle <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23JaneEyre&amp;src=hash">#JaneEyre</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Happy198th&amp;src=hash">#Happy198th</a> <a href="http://t.co/5xhx0KyLaL">pic.twitter.com/5xhx0KyLaL</a>

Just heard first of Martin Sixsmith's progs on history of psychology/psychoanalysis. 30secs of female voices in 15mins (one quoting a man)!

Staff picks <a href="http://t.co/T4G2ubvx8x">pic.twitter.com/T4G2ubvx8x</a>

Illustration: Getty Images
Illustration: Getty Images

Join us in reading Dante's "Inferno"; we will post recaps every Monday. Last week's recap of Canto 25: <a href="http://t.co/77GjNDHmai">http://t.co/77GjNDHmai</a>

Very sorry to hear: Alistair MacLeod, acclaimed Canadian writer, dead, 77: CBC News <a href="http://t.co/yRGmYBtLW0">http://t.co/yRGmYBtLW0</a> Lovely writer, wonderful person.

This week I inadvertently came up with the perfect description of how I publish: A book escapes from the house and someone sends me a cheque

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." RIP <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GabrielGarciaMarquez&amp;src=hash">#GabrielGarciaMarquez</a>

featuring Eimear McBride, James Joyce, Peter Murphy, Lola Ridge, Benjamin Myers, the devil, poems, prose & lots more <a href="http://t.co/5YjB2KxNr8">http://t.co/5YjB2KxNr8</a>

PEN World Voices Festival has named Colm Tóibín chairman beginning next year; he succeeds Salman Rushdie.

Eminent Poet to me recently: So what was your formative reading? Me: The Hardy Boys Poet: Eh? Ah! Thomas Hardy! Me: No. Frank and Joe Hardy

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