Literary twitterati: from staring at lakes to wastelands

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

...in other news, have you read Staring at Lakes by Michael Harding? I started last night and I LOVE!

"Pointlessly banal, attempts to milk applause from dimwits." Borges wasn't a big fan of Citizen Kane: :<a href="http://t.co/DNsrb4GQie">http://t.co/DNsrb4GQie</a>

Pleasingly, the builders upstairs are listening to 'Stay' by Shakespears Sister, and singing their little hearts out.

Photograph: Thinkstock
Photograph: Thinkstock

Here is that great comment from FT amazon piece. <a href="http://t.co/Ifi93GC2xa">http://t.co/Ifi93GC2xa</a> <a href="http://t.co/fDK2ufEFv2">pic.twitter.com/fDK2ufEFv2</a>

Amazon's new publishing guru, <a href="https://twitter.com/eoinpurcell">@eoinpurcell</a> had this to say in 2010Things Publishers Fear: # 1Amazon <a href="http://t.co/6hMiElPTeU">http://t.co/6hMiElPTeU</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/eoinpurcell">@eoinpurcell</a>

In memory of Robin Williams, a look at Lillian Ross's 1993 Profile of the actor and his second wife <a href="http://t.co/Ze3H2jKCLB">http://t.co/Ze3H2jKCLB</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RIPRobinWilliams?src=hash">#RIPRobinWilliams</a>

Think too many people limit writing advice to 'read lots'. Yes. But also: look at art, go to a film, see a circus, break your heart.

There's a Maeve Brennan item (discussion, interview with Eamon Morrissey & tour of Maeve's New York) on <a href="https://twitter.com/BookShowRTE">@BookShowRTE</a>: <a href="http://t.co/pqelgwX6m4">http://t.co/pqelgwX6m4</a>

Rave <a href="https://twitter.com/guardian">@guardian</a> review for <a href="https://twitter.com/Dead_Centre">@Dead_Centre</a> Lippy at <a href="https://twitter.com/traversetheatre">@traversetheatre</a> – solving the riddle of a group suicide <a href="http://t.co/ipWobBHv4z">http://t.co/ipWobBHv4z</a>

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot read by Eileen Atkins & Jeremy Irons. Listen: <a href="http://t.co/xJUhFeawgb">http://t.co/xJUhFeawgb</a> <a href="http://t.co/I7WZ0V1FRL">pic.twitter.com/I7WZ0V1FRL</a>