Literary Twitterati: from Elmo to xo's

Our weekly round-up of tweets from the book world

My Kickstarter's inspired by the fact that when Joyce died, he left an estate valued at £908; a single letter by him later sold for $445,000

A collection of classic stories about the theatre from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TNYarchive?src=hash">#TNYarchive</a>: <a href="http://t.co/HYKAwS43S5">http://t.co/HYKAwS43S5</a>

Need your Beckett fix for tonight? Try "Waiting for Elmo" <a href="https://t.co/3wK8AV7pOj">https://t.co/3wK8AV7pOj</a>

Photograph: Thinkstock
Photograph: Thinkstock

RT <a href="https://twitter.com/Litblog">@Litblog</a>: Chuck Palahniuk's views on gender in fiction haven't evolved since 2005 <a href="http://t.co/0CT7k9iIC5">http://t.co/0CT7k9iIC5</a>

"Is it too late to nominate a candidate for novel of the summer?" Nope, not too late at all <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimesbooks">@nytimesbooks</a> <a href="http://t.co/9ZPTLQ0MBW">http://t.co/9ZPTLQ0MBW</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wtf?src=hash">#wtf</a>

Going to buy Lean Cullinan's debut this week. Staggeringly harsh reviews like the one in Saturday's <a href="https://twitter.com/IrishTimes">@irishtimes</a> often have that effect.

Don't think of it as a novel. Think of it as a chance to retroactively win every argument you have ever walked away from.

All right I'm just going to come right out and say it: when people sign xoxo at the end of texts etc I don't get what the o means.

1st stop the stunning Isles of Scilly (Sea Areas Sole, Lundy & Fastnet) <a href="http://t.co/pVwigeNQbU">http://t.co/pVwigeNQbU</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/wordpressdotcom">@wordpressdotcom</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/maevebinchytravelaward?src=hash">#maevebinchytravelaward</a>