@BOOKSA Twitter Weekly Updates 2009-11-15

November 15th, 2009 by Ben - Editor

Alternative Sunday Read is this excerpt from James McManus’ book “Cowboys Full” on poker-playing politicians http://bit.ly/3WpBSu #
Sunday Read: Excerpt from Vladimir Nabokov’s The Original of Laura http://book.co.za/T548 #
Kathryn White http://flic.kr/p/7fBwLw #
RT @parisreview Audio of Nabokov reading in 1964: http://bit.ly/4c2KfU #
RT @guardianbooks Scientists nose out clue to preserving books: their smell http://bit.ly/2WWC9T #
Tammy February Reviews Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert http://book.co.za/Aaoy #carrot #
Breyten Breytenbach reageer op Antjie Krog se uitspraak oor Julius Malema http://book.co.za/ujk7 #twis #
RT @guardianbooks: French novelist hits back after MP says she must show greater ‘reserve’ http://bit.ly/1UW0nb #
Ann Donald on the Home and The Help http://book.co.za/9jcE #
Max Ross Reviews Sleeper’s Wake by Alistair Morgan http://book.co.za/0qeO #carrot #
Anthony Stidolph Reviews We are All Zimbabweans Now by James Kilgore http://book.co.za/Ttov #carrot #
Book Launch: Handspring Puppet Company Edited by Jane Taylor http://book.co.za/o5qp #
@Anatinus Eish such slackers. Secretly, I agree with you about my kind. But don’t tell anyone. in reply to Anatinus #
@victordlamini: @mimi0 Welcome! See you soon in reply to victordlamini #
@Anatinus Unless you ask *this* Capetonian, harrumph in reply to Anatinus #
RT @electricbook: RT @kooptech Interview with Arthur Attwell on Paperight #ebook #copyright http://bit.ly/15pnli #
First Look at John Smit’s Rugby Memoir, Captain of the Cauldron http://book.co.za/JI4g #
Jane Rosenthal Reviews Summertime by JM Coetzee http://book.co.za/6mLc #carrot #
Joanne Hichens Reviews Fuse by SA Partridge http://book.co.za/SEjh #carrot #
Binyavanga Wainaina: Against “African Literature” http://book.co.za/RRax #
Sue Grant-Marshall Reviews Daddy’s Girl by Margie Orford http://book.co.za/eNcA #carrot #
David Pike Reviews House of War by Hamilton Wende http://book.co.za/Kw4C #carrot #
RT @cellstories: Today’s CellStory is really funny. Grab your phone and smile: http://bit.ly/YC8uO #
Good, long piece by Greg Mitchell on “The Great Atomic Film Cover-Up” http://bit.ly/4eZPsY #hiroshima #nagasaki #
Achebe: I’m Not the “Father of Modern African Literature” http://book.co.za/PXt1 #
RT @NicDawes @sokwanele Old Mutual funds lies, hate-speak via the Zanu PF press. Sign the petition: http://is.gd/4TlTg via @3bucn <- Pse RT #
The question of the day is, why does http://www.afrinic.org/ feel the need to ping BOOK SA hundreds of times per minute at reg intervals? #
Stephen Gray: Why do We Let Foreigners Write Our Stories? http://book.co.za/D5ma #
Christopher Merrett Reviews The World According to Julius Malema http://book.co.za/n15F #stick #
Poetry Lovers, Save the Date: An Evening with Yvette Christiansë and Ingrid de Kok at Kalk Bay Books http://book.co.za/K7Yd #
Omeshnie Naidoo Reviews Small Moving Parts by Sally-Ann Murray http://book.co.za/5xTO #carrot #
Jassy Mackenzie in Conversation with Yaba Badoe at Love Books http://book.co.za/hpiR #
Women and Words: a Poetry Reading at Wordsworth Gardens http://book.co.za/eCCg #
Book Launch: Shiny Happy People: These are my mates, These are my tastes by Neil Roake http://book.co.za/uoPy #
RT @WitsPress: Invaded Author Leonie Joubert is Environmental Journalist of the Year http://book.co.za/EZiS #
RT @LondonBookFair: Registration is now live for LBF 2010, register online and save £15 http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk #LBF #
Wordsetc calls for book reviewers: http://book.co.za/gOzo #
@Grondwerk @urbanrenewal It’s owned by EvH and Media24 in reply to Grondwerk #
Antonia Malchik Talks South Africa: A Traveler’s Literary Companion http://book.co.za/oK66 #gordimer #coetzee @Grondwerk #
Izak de Vries resenseer The Elephant in the Room deur Maya Fowler http://book.co.za/FnvH #carrot #wortel #
@Grondwerk @urbanrenewal Getting the same prob w/oulitnet. Doesn’t seem to be a browser issue. in reply to Grondwerk #
Chinua Achebe’s First Interview at Brown University http://book.co.za/dugq #
Fiona Wicksted Reviews Jelly Dog Days by Erica Emdon http://book.co.za/Akxa #
RT @ChrisRoperZA @KoosKombuis: On this day 7 years ago, Johannes Kerkorrel died He would’ve turned 50 in 4 months time. #
What do BOOK SA and Italo Calvino have in common? Think “path to the nest of spiders”. This time from 67.202.7.243. Begone ye pests! #
RT @AfricanPoetry Our compartment is muscled / with knees and beercans. / Between coughing and grunting / speech comes thickly. ~ R Berold #
An e-reader for the blind and dyslexic: new Intel Reader photographs text, reads it back to you http://bit.ly/Stan1 (via @electricbook) #
Karel Schoeman’s Hierdie lewe Wins France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger http://book.co.za/65DY #phebus #
Arts and Culture Trust Top 10 Announced! http://book.co.za/kBmd #
RT @SiberInk: Board Silly! Eskom ASA and Armscor: If Only They’d Read Corporate Governance http://book.co.za/UpuS #chuene #maroga #thomo #
Shelley Walia and Manuela Lovisa Review Summertime by JM Coetzee http://book.co.za/0A2Q #carrot and #wortel #
Amazon’s Content for the Kindle in Africa Gets a “Fail” from MyDigitalLife http://book.co.za/2ZjX #
Book Excerpt: Resident Alien by Rian Malan http://book.co.za/kSSv #
@urbanrenewal Yep. Double yep. in reply to urbanrenewal #
Janet van Eeden Reviews Woman, Trashed by Joanne Brodie http://book.co.za/a636 #
Lebo Mashile on Her City: Johannesburg http://book.co.za/CWVC #nomaaward #
Two Carrots for Still on the Run by Ben Trovato from Julia Denny-Dimitriou and Kevin Ritchie http://book.co.za/nJIu #satire #
Antjie Krog signing #readsa http://flic.kr/p/7eGMko #
Antjie Krog signing #readsa http://flic.kr/p/7eCPYB #
Antjie Krog http://flic.kr/p/7eGETL #
Antjie Krog http://flic.kr/p/7eGmuh #
Check it out: @RonIrwin’s new creative writing course, sponsored by @RandomStruik http://book.co.za/6gRd & http://bit.ly/LYN10 #
#vlad doesn’t seem too impressed, but I rather like Esquire’s new “Augmented Reality” mag, even if the term is naff http://bit.ly/HCLr9 #
Christropher Merrett Reviews Hani: A life too short by Janet Smith and Beauregard Tromp http://book.co.za/0D5U #stick #
Grace Kim Reviews Unconfessed by Yvette Christiansë http://book.co.za/cAyy #
RT @guardianbooks: How Waterstone’s killed bookselling http://bit.ly/1f7Ktu (plus great comments) <- Quite a readable rant #
RT @WitsPress: Announcing Abantu Besizwe, the Works of Samuel Mqhayi, Translated by Jeff Opland http://book.co.za/qdUc #xhosa #
RT @A_Burtenshaw: New article on Annie Proulx’s archive donation to the New York Public Library – http://tinyurl.com/yg57rtv #LBF #
JM Coetzee and Art Part II: Young Artist Award Winner to Incorporate Youth into New Installation http://book.co.za/qPhy #MacGarry #
Getting Serious About That Novel: A Dozen Top Writers Share Their Habits http://book.co.za/EM1t #wsj #
RT @electricbook: Amazon’s Kindle for PC is out http://www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/pc/ (via #Teleread http://bit.ly/3QtoP6) <- Big news #
Read Jelly Dog Day’s Erica Emdon’s interview with Whiplash’s Tracey Farren – http://book.co.za/AoYG #
Percy Zvomuya Reviews Nairobi Heat by Mukoma wa Ngugi http://book.co.za/bhK0 #carrot #
Andie Miller Profiles SAfm Literature Host Karabo Kgoleng http://book.co.za/Iv2d #@KaraboKgoleng #
@LaurenBeukes You’re gonna look pretty funny tryin’ to eat corn on the cob with no [effin'] teeth! Blues Brothers #
@brodiegal Pleasure. Amoeba is the centre of the (good) music universe in LA. And for a laugh, go downtown: http://bit.ly/47paRQ in reply to brodiegal #
@brodiegal When are you going to be in LA? A visit to Amoeba records is a must http://www.amoeba.com in reply to brodiegal #
RT @electricbook EPUB reader add-on for Firefox http://bit.ly/3cPaMM #
Charlie Brooker: Hell isn’t other people, hell is buying washing machines from other people http://bit.ly/2g755S <- Show us the way, Charlie #
@urbanrenewal Gotta be a #telkom #fail then. Raise your hands all who are surprised. in reply to urbanrenewal #
Raise your hands all who’ve found the web to be appallingly wonky today. A #cybersmart -specific problem? #
RT @FCoRT @StoryTimeAfrica: Emmanuel Sigauke on the growing popularity of the short story http://bit.ly/2NpWTP #
Interview with Ugandan Author Ulysses Chuka Kibuuka http://book.co.za/qqD8 #
Nonkululeko “Nonks” Godana featured on BOOK SA’s Muse poetry platform: http://book.co.za/IbUK #
RT @e_relevant @The_Tech_Update: Geek.com – German physicists invent “perfect” coffee cup http://bit.ly/3YaeFP <- Yes, I want one #
RT @PenguinbooksSA Win one of 2 SIGNED copies of Black Diamond by Zakes Mda! http://bit.ly/2KwdfU #
Koos Kombuis in die sop oor Die Tyd van die Kombi’s http://book.co.za/WWlr #afrikaans #
Attention cyclists (@NicDawes – ?): Gus Ferguson’s charming new “Bicicletta” quatrain – http://book.co.za/IbB9 #
@laurenbeukes Baie dankie vir die HTs (dis “hertweete” in Afrikaans, ne) in reply to laurenbeukes #
Media Watch: David Bullard Attacks Black Columnists at The Weekender (RIP) http://book.co.za/1Y1G #race #
Petina Gappah’s Letter to a Young Writer http://book.co.za/o1My #work #
@laurenbeukes I will always love you – Parton & Houston in reply to laurenbeukes #
RT @PanMacmillanSA: Book Excerpt: Emperor Can Wait by Emma Chen http://book.co.za/tydW #taiwan #
RT @KathrynWhite_za: BOOK SA Ban’Quet guest list looking fantastic <- Nice! #
Marc Strydom Reviews Talking Balls by John Bishop and Tiki Dickson http://book.co.za/xniH #carrot #
Anthony Egan Reviews Daddy’s Girl by Margie Orford and Refuge by Andrew Brown http://book.co.za/wYcr #
Read Alistair Morgan’s Short Story, “Departure” http://book.co.za/HbPi #capetown #
Late-nite viewing: a flock of 300 000 starlings shape-shifting over Denmark http://bit.ly/39AbbX #
@magnt @magneticshape …but on the other hand, I use both services, so there’s def merit in each. Tks @magnt for the interaction. #
@magnt @magneticshape In the great profile debate, I don’t see much diff btw http://bit.ly/uNzKy and http://bit.ly/1QstHm – my 2 profiles… in reply to magnt #
@urbanrenewal #magntize is cool, but so is Google profile – http://bit.ly/1QstHm in reply to urbanrenewal #
RT @MAOrthofer J.M.G. Le Clézio op-ed on Claude Lévi-Strauss at NYT http://bit.ly/tJKY1 #