Literary Twitterati: from Casanova to annotated Ulysses

Our weekly round-up of recent literary happenings on Twitter

June 15 Borris Festival Carlow: I talk to singer Cathy Davey & read my cruxcfixion sequence Seven Words & Earthquake <a href="http://t.co/Se1grXSwdv">http://t.co/Se1grXSwdv</a>

They'd storm the stage if I didn't ask you to sing... "I will, but I'm not very good at it." <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RayDavies&amp;src=hash">#RayDavies</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23DWF2014&amp;src=hash">#DWF2014</a> <a href="http://t.co/o7QAtZ2j0s">pic.twitter.com/o7QAtZ2j0s</a>

Who knew Casanova was a librarian! Top 25 most famous librarians <a href="http://t.co/6jV387uaJe">http://t.co/6jV387uaJe</a>

Photograph: Thinkstock
Photograph: Thinkstock

Two of our best female poets in conversation at <a href="https://twitter.com/AbbeyTheatre">@AbbeyTheatre</a> on June 15th: Eavan Boland and Paula Meehan. <a href="http://t.co/y3Yui3cYU2">http://t.co/y3Yui3cYU2</a>

I'll be teaching on the MA Creative Writing course at <a href="https://twitter.com/uniofeastanglia">@uniofeastanglia</a> this Autumn, the course where I studied under Malcolm Bradbury 94/95

My friend Jane just laminated up quotes from my favourite ever two-star Amazon review for me. I adore my friend Jane. <a href="http://t.co/WT3QdFj6s3">pic.twitter.com/WT3QdFj6s3</a>

David Foster Wallace's annotated copy of James Joyce's Ulysses. Via <a href="https://twitter.com/bookpatrol">@bookpatrol</a> : <a href="http://t.co/6dchd13f2D">http://t.co/6dchd13f2D</a> <a href="http://t.co/rvCGdmSj9P">pic.twitter.com/rvCGdmSj9P</a>

Read our interview with author Paul Lynch here. He will be at Listowel on Thurs 29th May <a href="http://t.co/lfUGpb6n8G">http://t.co/lfUGpb6n8G</a>.

There are some things the short story can do the novel can only dream about. <a href="http://t.co/pT5YsKiini">http://t.co/pT5YsKiini</a> via @ElecticLit <a href="http://t.co/SDiEH8FRcI">http://t.co/SDiEH8FRcI</a>