@BOOKSA Twitter Weekly Updates 2009-11-08

November 8th, 2009 by Ben - Editor

Alternative Sunday Read is “The internet is killing storytelling” by Ben Mcintyre, in the Times Online http://bit.ly/2r7IOB #
Sunday Read: “Bolaño, Inc” by Horacio Castellanos Moya http://book.co.za/pL0H #
RT @FCoRT Obama’s half-brother, who’s resident in China, writes a novel based on Papa Obama: http://bit.ly/3wQnMt #
Tweeting this one again: RIP The Weekender, SA’s first newspaper casualty of the recession/web competition http://bit.ly/24LGMO #
Book Events Podcast: 6 - 12 Nov 2009 http://book.co.za/pJ20 #
BOOK SA Special Media Wrap: Preparing for Copenhagen Climate Conference 2009 http://book.co.za/1Va8 #green #
@Grondwerk Ja, saw that comment. Kudos to #Backsberg. in reply to Grondwerk #
RIP The Weekender, SA’s first newspaper casualty of the “perfect recession + web competition storm” http://bit.ly/24LGMO #
#Joost mense, can get a free, signed copy of Man in the Mirror w/every purchase of the R2500 DanCook 1400 braai http://www.dancook.co.za/ #
@Grondwerk Dude looks pretty old-skool cool in reply to Grondwerk #
@Grondwerk Got the poerics, ja, but, who’s that dude with the snor? in reply to Grondwerk #
Link Love: African Online Digital Library and Afripod http://book.co.za/ckqL #podcast #
Book Club Notes: John Mullan on Language in Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun http://book.co.za/dl6i #
Angelo Louw Reviews My Brother’s Keeper by Jassy Mackenzie http://book.co.za/7CaY #carrot #
RT @WombatSam: I’m both proud and embarrassed to be on the front page of the Argus today <- For this: http://bit.ly/3wnhyV #
Ann Donald: For the Love of (Print) Books http://book.co.za/k5gd #
Whoops, used the wrong hashtag for @ChrisRoperZA review of Joost’s bio. Should’ve been #carrot. Yep: #carrot (!) http://book.co.za/eehE #
Chris Roper Reviews Joost: The Man in the Mirror by David Gemmell http://book.co.za/eehE #readsa #
Not sickened by big game hunting yet? This story about H Ross Perot Jr’s rhino hunt, **by proxy**, will help you along http://bit.ly/tHXXN #
RT @modjaji_bks: London Book Fair here we come http://book.co.za/CuvB #readsa #lbf #
RT @A_Burtenshaw: Listen to LBF’s new podcast with Independent Publishers Guild Chairman Andrew Johnston - http://tinyurl.com/y94abhw #LBF #
RT @cellstories: On CellStories tonight: that bad tattoo you got? It sticks around. Grab your phone & a beer: http://bit.ly/40wXZV #
Brand New! Volume 8 of The Growth of Free State Black Writing http://book.co.za/kdIa #
Charles Larson Reviews The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini http://book.co.za/b8×0 #carrot #
RT @modjaji_bks: #LBF SA Market focus team chooses Malika Ndlovu, Invisible Earthquake, Modjaji Books author for London Book Fair! Yay! #
The Weekender Reviews The Choral Society by Prue Leith http://book.co.za/8qEg #carrot #
Amazon’s Kindle is Amazon’s Number One Seller, Period http://bit.ly/37Q26x #ebooks #
Beyond Words UK tour update: Phillippa Yaa de Villiers on the @southbankcentre poetry performances #readsa #lbf http://book.co.za/qb7O #
RT @KathrynWhite_za: Yippee! Published in Vice UK, as interviewedees http://bit.ly/489r2E <- Nice work! #
Obama won White House 1 y ago. Revisit his campaign to win the Dem nom before that w/book excerpt on “Bittergate” http://bit.ly/1NSjR4 #
Interesting Andre Brink update on human- author- and publisher-rights http://book.co.za/GEKL #
What’s your fav daft UK bicycle lane? Mine is… lessee… this one: http://bit.ly/1Oip3q #
London Book Fair: Spotlight on India Market Focus 2009 http://bit.ly/1rH4UG #lbf #
Geoff Wisner Reviews The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe http://book.co.za/lxD5 #
Read the @khayadlanga #thingsdarkiessay memo: SA & USA talk past, learn about each other. Then Twitter chickens out: http://bit.ly/2OyxKH #
Celebrate Literature this November with Alliance Française http://book.co.za/U5Po #
RT @laurenbeukes: @wombatsam is gonna be featured in The Sun (UK) for staging a marriage proposal on http://www.illscreamyourtweets.com <- So kewl! #
RT @NicDawes: Airbus cancellation closes circle. One of my first big stories http://tinyurl.com/y9wxf9z. No-one in the airforce wanted it. #
RT @laurenbeukes @stevevosloo: Kontax m-novel is a finalist in the Bookmarks Awards 2009 http://bit.ly/2CZeie #
RT @LondonBookFair: SAVE THE DATE: The London Book Fair Digital Conference is on Sunday 18th April 2010 #
Samaoen Osman Reviews A Country at War with Itself by Anthony Altbeker http://book.co.za/BfpG #
Kate Richards Reviews Shivas Dance by Elana Bregin http://book.co.za/Uo50 #
RT @NissanChamp: A Special New Contrast Tribute to Guy Willoughby at Little White Bakkie http://book.co.za/1uJr #
RT @readsa: Read SA’s Facebook page has gone over the 500 member mark. Congratulations, people…. http://bit.ly/3Qnj0e #
RT @victordlamini: Arsenal have scored an astonishing 32 goals in their last ten games. That’s an average of 3 goals per game! <- Right on #
RT @StoryTimeAfrica: This Sunday StoryTime Welcomes Uche Peter Umez http://bit.ly/1sBN0D #
RT @tymonsmith @nybooks: “A Hero of our Time” - Susan Sontag on Claude Lévi-Strauss (November 1963) http://bit.ly/TqENl #
RT @PenguinbooksSA Penguin Author of The Month is Zakes Mda http://bit.ly/36P2MS #readsa #
Surf’s Up! Wavescape Film Festival and Art Exhibition Come to Cape Town http://book.co.za/3Y3T #
Deal Watch: Kevin Bloom’s Ways of Staying Sold to Portobello http://book.co.za/5kgT #
Old (but good) guard reigning in SA Lit: Krog http://book.co.za/XWqz Behr http://book.co.za/Hv92 Malan http://book.co.za/qrt2 #readsa #
RT @LondonBookFair @A_Burtenshaw Interesting article on the South African film scene from Variety http://tinyurl.com/yz44xqv #LBF #
Ok, let’s start over again. Book Excerpt: Begging to Be Black by Antjie Krog http://book.co.za/XWqz <- A BOOK SA exclusive! #readsa #
Gotcha! 115.49.90.253 - nasty bot from China that doesn’t play by the rules, trying to copy the site whole. http://book.co.za is back (phew) #
@ChrisRoperZA Ja, but, what about “The chickens come home to Joost” - ? #
I was able to publish the Antjie Krog excerpt and - bam! - server gets crawled to w/in an inch of its life. #
Book Excerpt: Begging to Be Black by Antjie Krog http://book.co.za/XWqz #
@KaraboKgoleng It creeped me out. Kudos to the author. in reply to KaraboKgoleng #
Yowza, break out the bug spray. Spiders back with a vengeance! 20 min and counting… #
RT @percyzvomuya: scary…http://bit.ly/2B6jpn <- Meet a murdering hijacker. Fun! #
@lauricetb Tks. Check it from Oct 30th http://book.co.za/9iRI in reply to lauricetb #
RT @e_relevant: Secret internet copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad. http://ow.ly/z68j <- Flip! #
@Tom_Thumb27 Sorry to hear about the hacking. Sterkte! in reply to Tom_Thumb27 #
Lucelle Hough resenseer As almal ver is: Suid-Afrikaners skryf huis toe deur Danie Marais http://book.co.za/3wYz #
RT @TallStoriesBook: Steampunk exhibition at Oxford : http://bit.ly/36B7ux #
RT @PenguinbooksSA: Nairobi Heat’s Mukoma wa Ngugi on Kenya’s Troubled Political Scene http://book.co.za/YDt5 #
Ron Jackson Reviews Rose of Soweto: The Dingaan Thobela Story by Deon Potgieter http://book.co.za/kOFp #
Celebrate International African Writers Day at MuseumAfrica http://book.co.za/PRxX #
RT @lauricetb @jayrosen_nyu: How the summer of paid content became the autumn of pay walls lost. http://jr.ly/vvcy #
No Germany visas for South Africans (for now) because of Telkom #fail - http://bit.ly/3WSXDm #
Rhodes University Colloquium on Don Maclennan: Call for Papers http://book.co.za/znWf #
Inspiring words from Nam Le, author of The Boat http://bit.ly/4vVOQO #
RT @guardianbooks: Vietnamese refugee wins Australian prime minister’s award for fiction http://bit.ly/30yyj9 <- Nam Le’s book is “The Boat” #
Penguin to Publish Nobel Winner Herta Muller’s The Land of Green Plums http://book.co.za/EsA6 #
Call for Entries: The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2010 http://bit.ly/3Y5OmF #
RT @LondonBookFair LBF OFFER - save 15% on a sub to BookBrunch, the daily news service for the book industry http://tinyurl.com/yjwydw2 #
Ken Saro Wiwa Memorial Dinner at Ashley Kriel Hall, Community House http://book.co.za/hFzy #
Simon Mann receives a splodge of pardon wonga from Equitorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang http://bit.ly/33Pop6 #
RT @booksconnect Book apps overtake games on iPhone http://bit.ly/1OfK2N via @Book2Book #
Joylene Nowell Butler Interviews Nerine Dorman on Her First Novel, Khepera Rising http://book.co.za/Wed2 #
Alexander McCall Smith on His No 1 Ladies Detective, Mma Ramotswe (Plus: TV Series Videos) http://book.co.za/IzWW #
Business Day editor Peter Bruce starts a-bloggin’ http://bit.ly/37sKIt #
RT @e_relevant: Barnes & Noble Sued Over Nook by Spring Design http://ow.ly/yOgP <- Good news for Kindle #
Mark Potterton Reviews Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting race and the apartheid past by Jonathan Jansen http://book.co.za/Vs5I #
@brodiegal Looks like you’ve had that coffee? And looks like the delivery mense need some now… in reply to brodiegal #
RT @FCoRT @234next: Nigerian authors at home and abroad win laurels. http://tinyurl.com/ybyfzbb #
RT @NissanChamp: Preview Zachariah Rapola’s Noma Award-Winning Beginnings of a Dream at Little White Bakkie http://book.co.za/Ycf4 #
RT @guardianbooks: Digested read: The Humbling, by Philip Roth http://bit.ly/2XAtSp <- Yeeouch #
RT @wkamkwamba: “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” makes Amazon’s 10 Books of the Year (and Pub Weekly’s list, too!) http://bit.ly/2Ru5lX #
RT @e_relevant: Google Wave Guide: User Manual Released for Wave http://ow.ly/yxAI #
@Damariasenne Likewise, Damaria! in reply to Damariasenne #
@mattlibrarian A pity he can’t make it! I hope the UK authorities will eventually see reason… in reply to mattlibrarian #
RT @guardianbooks: Black woman wins Prix Goncourt for the first time http://bit.ly/4ArHGd #
SA Comic Artist Can’t Go to Own Book Launch http://book.co.za/toqm #
@Damariasenne Well, Zuki wrote it, and you published it, I just added the books (blush) http://bit.ly/qhXf4 in reply to Damariasenne #
Mason, Langa and Foxcroft Make the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist http://book.co.za/vMnu #
Dye Hard Press and WISER Discussion: Who Was Sinclair Beiles? http://book.co.za/Cjm1 #
RT @Grondwerk: Food & drink: Wine of the week: Krone 2006 http://bit.ly/2QXV7Z
Check it! #
Saint Papa Molokeng Reviews Black Diamond by Zakes Mda http://book.co.za/b2wW #
Tymon Smith Goes to the Boek Bedonnerd Festival; and Koos Malgas sculptor of the Owl House Wins Richmond Prize http://book.co.za/95Zd #
Report from the Caine Prize Anniversary Tour http://book.co.za/TAaE #
@FCoRT @kojobaffoe @caroleagent Tks for RTs; & don’t miss the news of Sefi Atta’s Noma Award win http://book.co.za/vUVR in reply to FCoRT #
Joan Hambidge Resenseer Oorblyfsel/Voice over deur Breyten Breytenbach http://book.co.za/AeYy #
Two Writers Residencies Open for Applications (Sweden, Egypt) http://book.co.za/MYHO #
RT @Damariasenne: Karen Brooks will be speaking at the TEDx JNB Conf on 15th November. http://bit.ly/401ajH #readsa #
RT @victordlamini: Pictures of the Johannesburg Post Office Inferno http://book.co.za/PGxy #
RT @victordlamini YouTube video — Joburg Post Office burns http://bit.ly/12Vwp7 #
Nigerian Sefi Atta Wins the 2009 Noma Award http://book.co.za/vUVR #
Breaking: the @victordlamini pics of the Joburg Post Office fire: http://twitpic.com/nwv2q http://twitpic.com/nwy3p http://twitpic.com/nww4j #
@urbanrenewal Re SAfm website - check it: http://bit.ly/3ZlVMd in reply to urbanrenewal #
Folio Books, Cape Town http://flic.kr/p/7ccwwD #