BOOK SA – News

• Sunday Read: John Carlin Interviews Fatima Meer http://book.co.za/SDVW #
• Aher Arop Bol, William Gumede #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KufBj #
• Zakes Mda, Sally-Ann Murray, Johan Jacobs #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Ku8vG #
• #tow10: And on that note, we conclude – and BOOK SA's livetweeting concudes. Thanks for tuning in! #
• #tow10: Though Mda makes the point that, in the contest between writing and do-gooding, "unfortunately, one can't help everybody" #
• #tow10: A final, somewhat random discussion, centres on fostering the development of literacy and writing in SA #
• #tow10: …which ironically very much echoes Mngxitama's revival of Biko's "I write what I like" ethos #
• #tow10: Mda: "I'm going to write what I want, the way I want it, anytime I want to write it" – in response to a comment about Mngxitama… #
• @KaraboKgoleng asking a question at #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KtYvJ #
• #tow10: Murray: "And where a word that expresses what I want doesn't exist, I've made it up." #
• #tow10: …and which she used in order to reclaim some of SA English's really exciting potential, to resist its flattening #
• #tow10: …which is practically unique to the Umbilo community and which expresses a certain kind of working-class whiteness… #
• #tow10: Murray: Wants to say something about language. In Small Moving Parts, she's used a language that's almost a kind of vernacular… #
• #tow10: Mda: "I am a very staunch pan-Africanist – not politically, but as a concept. Africa and its diaspora are my concerns." #
• #tow10: Mda: …beginning with my mother, my sisters, now with my wife…" Lots of laughter and applause. #
• #tow10: Mda: "The reason that there are women in my novels is that, well, women are there… and I've had a lot of interaction with them… #
• #tow10: Mda: On the other hand, a publisher once called his "Ways of Dying" "a feminist diatribe". So perhaps he is a feminist. #
• #tow10: Mda: "I'll leave that to the critics. Some have said I'm a feminist, and I've not disagreed with them." #
• #tow10: An audience member asks Mda if he's a feminist; many of his novels centre on women characters. #
• #tow10: Mda to Mngxitama: "This is fiction, by the way – I can't address everything." And the mini-exchange concludes. #
• #tow10: Mda: "You read page 67, then Andile, where I show the role of white capital in the issues that the novel addresses" #
• #tow10: (One of my tweets didn't fire: Kgoleng To Mda: how did the media influence the reception of Black Diamond? How should it have?) #
• #tow10: …an opinion rebutted by Mngxitama from the audience. #
• #tow10: Mda: "Now, let me move from Sandile to Andile (Mnxgitama)." Mda doesn't think that Mnxgitama has read the book… #
• #tow10: Mda: "In Canada, etc, I'm now asked why the SA govt is attacking me, telling me what to create. A false but problematic impression." #
• #tow10: Mda: "In SA, we already know who Sandile is, so it's not a problem – 'Oh, it's Sandile, OK'. But overseas it was a different thing." #
• #tow10: Mda: "The only problem I've had is with a diatribe that the DAC's Sandile Memela had that labeled me an enemy of the state" #
• #tow10: Mda: "I do get bad reviews, but with this particular novel – maybe if you've seen a bad review you can bring it to my attention?" #
• #tow10 Mda: "I was determined that the novel should be as accessible as a film" (it developed out of a film script) #
• #tow10 Black Diamond was created when Mda was on a 40-city book tour to promote Cion in the USA (it did extremely well there) #
• #tow10: Mda: South Africa is my stomping ground as far as SA is concerned. Says Black Diamond was an accident of sorts – not on his list #
• #tow10: Murray: I write about Umbilo (a section of Durban) because it's where I'm from, & "I got tired of its being always CPT, always JNB" #
• #tow10 …and asks both authors to comment on place, rather than character, in their fiction. #
• #tow10 And now we move into the discussion section. Jacobs calls Murray's book a "chronotope" – a rendered place and time… #
• #tow10 The passage Murray reads is about a man "trying to make a crazy plan fly" #
• #tow10 Now it's Sally-Ann Murray's turn to read, from Small Moving Parts #
• #tow10 It's quite a powerful passage, read very well, that relies on a kind of gently killing logic to horrify #
• #tow10 …to ensure that the latter would never become attached to, much less love, their children. #
• #tow10 Mda reads a passage from Cion that's set during US slavery times, about the strategies that owners and slave women employed… #
• #tow10 Mda: "I thought to write a novel set among the WIN people tracing their pasts, shuttling to their present(s)" #
• #tow10 Accordingly, Cion centres on Ohio's "WIN" people (White, Indian, Negro) #
• #tow10 Mda: "I'm of the school of writing that says, 'Write what you don't know', not 'Write what you know'" #
• #tow10 …his only novel that's not set in SA. It's set in Ohio, USA. #
• #tow10 Jacobs invites the writers to read from their work. Mda to begin – he'll read not from Black Diamond but from Cion… #
• #tow10 The theme of the session is "Tense: Past and Present in SA Fiction" #
• Johan Jacobs, Sally-Ann Murray, Zakes Mda #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Kps2T #
• #tow10 Jacobs introduces the two writers. #
• #tow10 Johan Jacobs is facilitating the final TOW session, on stage w/Zakes Mda (Black Diamon) & Sally-Ann Murray (Small Moving Parts) #
• Sally-Ann Murray & Zakes Mda are now up on stage #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Kpph2 #
• Keorapetse Kgositsile #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Kti4C #
• Andile Mngxitama & Tymon Smith #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KtgnA #
• #tow10 And on that fiery note, the session concludes. 15 min interval now – back in a bit. #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: …and the unequal system powered by white wealth that created it is normalised. The danger is that we'll reinternalise it #
• #tow10 Mngxitama moves on to Zakes Mda's Black Diamond. By writing about BEE the way Mda does, the black bourgeoisie is highlighted… #
• #tow10 Mngxitama …is very problematic. Black writers chase white women readers – the main reading demographic – too hard. #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: "I promised to attack black SA writers this evening" so here goes. Post-1994 black writing – its underlying politics…. #
• #tow10 Gumede …mistakes that other liberation movements have made. #
• #tow10 Gumede: Humanity and morality are more important than ideology. If we don't get more angry, we're going to make the same… #
• #tow10 Gumede: He agrees w/Mngxitama on the question of anger. "We aren't angry enough. We need to step up and challenge the govt" #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: "Why do we lower our expectations of what it means to be free? Why not just give whites the govt to run? Nothing has chgd" #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: "You say I'm angry, but I think I'm not angry enough! How can people accept their current conditions?" #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: "My question is: 'what is the state of the majority?' What has happened since 94 that is good for the majority?" #
• #tow10 Sihle Khumalo now weighs in, addressing Mngxitama: "We also have to celebrate our achievements as a country, do we not?" #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: It's not a question of facts and truth per se, but a Q of a system that only engages facts and truth on its own terms #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: "To talk politics and transparency, discussed outside the systems that reinforce them" is a failure of analysis #
• #tow10 Gumede: "If we're not going to speak truth to power, we're not going to prosper" #
• #tow10 Gumede: At the moment, it's not even a question of culture, power is being gained by making different promises to different people #
• #tow10 …& says, "If we agree that culture is by definition hostile to stasis" are we not on shaky ground when using it to organise power? #
• #tow10 Keorapetse Kgositsile has questions "that might be a little basic". Asks for clarity on the line between truth and fact…. #
• #tow10 Gumede: "If you live in a rural part of Africa, how much of the truth, as it relates to power, can you actually know?" #
• #tow10 Gumede: It's not only to do with liberation credentials. The key thing is the way information is manipulated. #
• #tow10 Gumede: Will answer in a roundabout way. Why do people in African countries keep voting the same people into power? #
• #tow10 Now a question for Gumede. What are your views on the provinces in SA as they're presently constituted? #
• Anile Mnxgitama & @KaraboKgoleng http://flic.kr/p/7KsKeJ #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: "FIFA will make all the money in the World Cup. Our children will still be paying for their stadiums." #
• @KaraboKgoleng & Mervyn Gumede #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KoNEa #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: "And look at the 2010 World Cup. We've been robbed again. And this time by Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu." #
• #tow10 Mngxitama "One problem is that we are cowards in this country. Look at the ANC/Eskom scandal. It's robbery. We do nothing." #
• #tow10 Mngxitama, in response to a question: "New Frank Talk was established to help change the conditions of the majority of our people" #
• #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng senses the restlessness in the audience and opens the panel up for public questions. #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: …which guarantee a minority-rights protection regime. "The right wing will realise that de Klerk was not such a bad guy" #
• #tow10 Mngxitama quotes FW de Klerk on the "concessions" the ANC made pre-1994, which included the Bill of Rights and the Constitution… #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: …but the AWB is allowed to exist and act on its agenda. #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: For me, the question is whether democracy actually serves the majority. In SA, black-only organisations are banned… #
• #tow10 Gumede: Because of Africa's history, and colonialism's legacy of "crisis states", it's more complex than democratic vs undemocratic #
• #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng: "Do the untruths by which we are led make Africa undemocratic?" #
• #tow10 Gumede: "If we're going to make Africa prosperous, we must switch from partial truths to full transparency" #
• #tow10 Gumede: …one example being, from southern Africa, Robert Mugabe. A man congenitally surrounded by untruths. #
• #tow10 Gumede: For me, transparency is key; honesty. In SA, people w/impeccable "struggle" credentials… #
• #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng: What alternatives do we have, if we're to change the power situation in Africa? #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: "In SA, you are illegal if you don't have papers… and are black. I'm very pessimistic about how power is used in Africa" #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: Doesn't find much to laugh about re: Africa, unlike last night's panelists #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: …instead we have a neo-apartheid, this time run by black people." #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: "The truth of the majority tells us that the post-1994 project of democracy does not liberate… #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: "My understanding of truth is an ideological one. The truth is that Africa, incl. SA, is in trouble, major trouble" #
• #tow10 Gumede says truth and power intersect, in Africa, where the tough questions about culture are asked #
• #tow10 Mngxitama: in SA, the truth is intertwined with the "black excluded", who are outside of power #
• #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng now quotes from Vaclev Havel… you can find the quote here http://nyti.ms/dlHYuJ (cf "chief doubter of systems") #
• #tow10 Now @KaraboKgoleng reads from Gumede's co-written The Poverty of Ideas #
• #tow10 (New Frank Talk no. 1: Why Biko Wouldn't Vote) #
• #tow10 …starting with one of Mngxitama's New Frank Talk pamphlets. #
• #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng Introduces Mngxitama and Gumede, talking them up, and says she'll give two readings… #
• Andile Mngxitama, @KaraboKgoleng, William Mervyn Gumede #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KssU5 #
• #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng summarises the Time of the Writer week, mentioning launches, Betty Govinden, Fatima Meer and more #
• #tow10 The title of tonight's first panel is "Writing, Truth and Power" #
• #tow10 A slightly better photo of those three: http://www.flickr.com/photos/booksa/4429137615/ #
• #tow10 First up on stage will be William Mervyn Gumede and Andile Mngxitama, hosted by @KaraboKgoleng http://flic.kr/p/7Kot6v #
• The Time of the Writer finale is about to begin #tow10 #
• The Badsha Peer cemetery, Fatima Meer's final resting place http://flic.kr/p/7KqhsW #
• The last rites are concluded and people leave Fatima Meer's grave http://flic.kr/p/7KqgxL #
• Mangosuthu Buthelezi at Fatima Meer's graveside http://flic.kr/p/7Kmj5a #
• The last shovelfuls of earth are added to Meer's grave http://flic.kr/p/7KqeAm #
• Meer's body is interred http://flic.kr/p/7KmbXR #
• Meer's body at the graveside http://flic.kr/p/7Kmbv2 #
• After a stop for prayers outside the main cemetery bldg, Meer's body is borne to its fianl resting place http://flic.kr/p/7Km9bp #
• Meer's body enters the cemetery http://flic.kr/p/7Kq3aQ #
• The Meer funeral cortege approaches the cemetery http://flic.kr/p/7Km6ye #
• The Meer funeral cortege proceeds down Queen/Denis Hurley St, Durban http://flic.kr/p/7Km5mF #
• Meer's body is hoisted on the shoulders of her relatives http://flic.kr/p/7Km4hi #
• KZN premier Zweli Mhkize & the IFP's Mangosuthu Buthelezi are among the dignitaries http://flic.kr/p/7Km2Yn #
• Prayers have begun at the Meer funeral #
• the programme at Fatima Meer's funeral: prayers, then a walk to the cemetery and further formalities #
• Guests gather at the Grey Street Mosque for a prayer ahead og Fatima Meer's funeral http://flic.kr/p/7KkVUB #
• In Durban, the Winnie-Naipaul saga contnues. Here's the front pafe of the Sat Ind: http://flic.kr/p/7KoVEh #
• Finally, here's a pic of the mosque from the Grey/Yusuf Dadoo St approach http://flic.kr/p/7KjvpV #
• The mosque is at the corner of Grey & Queen Sts, aka Yusuf Dadoo & Denis Hurley Sts. Pic of corner http://flic.kr/p/7Koq7s #
• The entrance to the mosque is in Queen St, now renamed as Dennis Hurley St. Pic of entrance http://flic.kr/p/7KjtyH #
• Meer's funeral will take place at Durban's Grey St Mosque, 3h30 pm. Here's the mosque notice http://flic.kr/p/7KonES #
• Stand by for a series of illustrated tweets on the Fatima Meer funeral later today #
• On SAFM right now, Athol Fugard on Fatima Meer: young women today couldnt ask for a better role model. She was a dear friend. #
• Thanks to Zukiswa Wanner for preserving this proof of BOOK SA's existence in KZN's Mercury #winnie #naipaul http://flic.kr/p/7KiRMk #
• Good night from #tow10 – thanks for tuning in. #
• #tow10 Preview of tomorrow's events: BAT Centre workshops in the morning; book launch and Gumede, Mngxitama, Mda, Murray in the evening #
• #tow10 And that's a wrap! Good, memorable session. #
• #tow10 …there's a huge market for books in vernacular languages in SA" #
• #tow10 Khumalo: "The issue of publishing in the vernacular is very important. It seriously needs to be taken on. I seriously believe…. #
• #tow10 Ngcobo: "The only reason that I'm able to have a convo w/this aspiring funnyman over here [Coovadia] is b/c we speak English" #
• #tow10 The question had to do w/why the writers write in English, not Zulu? #
• #tow10 Now a question wholly in Zulu for the panelists. Khumalo: "Imraan will translate." Coovadia: "[erm] please respond". #
• #tow10 Khumalo: "My family don't laugh at funerals. We take it as against the… the culture". Ngcobo: "You're boring." #
• #tow10 Two young women in the audience, behind me, have been filming this entire session w/their phones. #bicepfatigue #
• #tow10 Ngcobo: "At the core of humour are some really tough, hard truths. Comedians are some of the most depressing people to be around" #
• #tow10 Ngcobo, answering a question about whether Castle Lager makes him more creative: "Yeah, pretty much." #
• #tow10 Khumalo: Felt the urge to emigrate to China and open a hotel there exclusively for black African people. #
• #tow10 Khumalo: "I was stopped by a guard at the gate, but the hotel is only and exclusively reserved for the Chinese. In Khartoum." #
• #tow10 Cedric Sissing of Adams Books ask Sihle to relate a story about a Chinese-run hotel in Sudan #
• #tow10 Ngcobo is rambling, which would be a bad thing, if it weren't funny. Pull quote: "…our friend w/the penis" (points to Mgqolozana) #
• #tow10 Now Elinor Sisulu has the mic, makes the point that in many African countries – incl Zim – the men on stage might well be in jail #
• #tow10 Now we're talking corporate culture vs writing culture. Both writers (who have transitioned) much prefer the latter. #
• #tow10 Ngcobo: the worst thing that can befall satire, however, is when it becomes belaboured, as can happen w/Malema & Zuma #
• #tow10 Ngcobo: those who satirise Malema might be racist – prob are – but he's a legit target b/c he's the Pres of the ANCYL #
• #tow10 Ngcobo: Only insofar as we are all intrinsically racist. The classic SA gesture is: to look over one's shoulder before commenting #
• #tow10 Tough first Q from the audience: is current SA satire simply the new racism (wrt Malema, etc)? #
• #tow10 Again, I'll tweet the better Q&A exchanges. (They can get deadly.) #
• #tow10 Khumalo: "One question tha'ts now allowed is 'what's the point of all of this'" #
• #tow10 Coovadia: restriction on questions for this session: they have to be funny #
• #tow10 Ngcobo: this guy, CSZ Ntuli (?) once wrote an entire piece "just talking about beers and it was funny as hell" #
• #tow10 Coovadia asks about Ngcobo and Khumalo's early influences. A number of Zulu writers and performers are named. #
• #tow10 Coovadia: "One more question from me before we allow the audience to make 10 minute speeches" #
• #tow10 Khumalo: "Obviously if someone has touched your goat, you're going to want the lobola" #
• #tow10 Good lord, now we're talking about the defiling of goats #
• #tow10 Sitting next to @TymonSmith, who's recording the session. Hopefully a podcast is in the offing. #
• #tow10 …can't help being what they are. "I'm one of the few people who still defend Julius Malema, for instance." #
• #tow10 Ngcobo, referring to the S Friedmann article on satire (cf Business Day), says he doesn't mock and ridicule anyone who… #
• #tow10 Khumalo: True, but sometimes people do such stupid things they deserve to be cartooned about every week #
• #tow10 Coovadia: the painful side of humour: it can be used to enforce hierarchies and can be used to hurt. Ideas on that? #
• #tow10 Ngcobo: definitely, because, unlike in other countries where sex sells, in SA, *race* sells #
• #tow10 Coovadia: In politics, race can be a problem; in humorous writing, is it an opportunity? #
• #tow10 Coovadia: Zuma certainly does have a marvelous efficiency. #
• #tow10 …running a country, I ask myself, 'how does he have the time, and not me?'" #
• #tow10 …with his exercising his right to insert his… ahm… machine gun – I got angry, because for a man who is supposedly… #
• #tow10 Ngcobo (still on Zuma) "Right after his BS apology, which everyone knows he really didn't mean – and I don't have a problem… #
• #tow10 Ngcobo: "Hey, who wrote the funny book here?" #
• #tow10 Ngcobo, telling about a school visit, is interrupted by Coovadia: "were the kids all part of the President's family?" #
• Hm, one of my tweets seems to have gone astray. Don't know where it went. Sorry for the break in narrative. #tow10 #
• Imraan Coovadia, Ndumiso Ngcobo, Sihle Khumalo #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Kd19t #
• #tow10 Ngcobo: Let's quickly correct the name of the province. The name of the province is KwaZuma Natal. #
• #tow10 …we can't forget about Citizen Number One. Sometimes you can't help but hear him and think "Yes, this is our brother". #
• #tow10 Khumalo: There are quite a few things that are funny about KZN, for instance, but most importantly… #
• #tow10 …but what *is* funny about SA is the most moronic animals on the landscape, its human beings" (Ngcobo) #
• #tow10 Coovadia: the title of the talk tonight is "What's so funny about Africa". He asks: what is so funny, after all? #
• Chirikure Chirikure (rather dark pic, sorry) http://flic.kr/p/7KcTCP #
• #tow10 Interval time. Just met Zim's Chirikure Chirikure in the lobby! Alas, he's not performing this year. #
• #tow10 The TOW has a trad of looooong questions from the audience, just revived by a gent sitting on t'other side of the theatre. 5+ mins. #
• #tow10 Mgqolozana: if the diff is artificial, it calls into question the usefulness of a practice that kills 100s each year #
• #tow10 Mgqolozana answers a question w/one of his own: 'What's the diff btw a man who's been circumcised and who's not been?' #
• #tow10 …meaning "girl", because she doesn't have a ring on her wedding finger. It grates. #
• #tow10 Bregin: "I hate being perceived as a race group rather than as an individual". Mentions that Zulus call her "ntombazana"… #
• #tow10 Both writers express their frustration at encountering so many "no go areas" in South African culture. #
• #tow10 The readings having concluded, it's Q&A time at the Time of the Writer. I'll tweet the most interesting questions. #
• #tow10 "…we were all embarrassed by the strong smell of rot that came from underneath those sheets" #mgolozana #circumcision #
• #tow10 …and encounter nothing but scorn from the hospital nurse, along with shamed silence towards one another. #
• #tow10 Mgqolozana reads from chapter 18 in his book, set in a hospital, where a handful of initiates recover from botched circumcisions… #
• #tow10 Mgqolozana: …inside the culture, you were selling something no one wanted to buy" (i.e., an expose on circumcision) #
• #tow10 Mgqolozana: "The dialogue that my book opened was one that didn't exist before. Outside the culture, you didn't know about it…. #
• #tow10 Mgqolozana: "But there is nothing 'ayoba' about hundreds of children dying of botched circumcisions every year." #
• #tow10 Thando Mgqolozana's turn. "I wish I had written a book about something that was 'ayoba'", he starts. #
• #tow10 Applause as Bregin's reading concludes. #
• #tow10 Bregin's reading sketches a 1st-time convo between a white woman, Jerry, and a subcontinental Buddhist, Adiga #
• #tow10 …which gets Bregin rather a lot of silent s from the audience. #
• #tow10 Now Bregin begins to read from her novel. Turns out the Shiva of the title is actually the name of one of the characters' dogs… #
• #tow10 Bregin: "If you are a dancer, you are not a victim." #
• #tow10 Now Bregin addresses her novel, Shiva's Dance, explaining that the title is more abstract than one might think: #
• #tow10 …which boils down to 'too much say, so little space to say it in'. #
• #tow10 So instead of talking about her book and reading from it, Bregin begins by reaffirming the writer's dilemma in SA… #
• #tow10 Bregin: …and am hijacking the proceedings a little bit" #
• #tow10 Now the Zulu category winners are announced. "In an age when expression in indigenous languages is stifled and sidelined… #
• #tow10 Now, the TOW Schools Short Story winners. The four winners in the English category are named and three are here to appear on stage #
• #tow10 Here are my five main tweets regarding Fatima Meer, RIP 1928 – 2010, http://www.quoteurl.com/ubyi5 #
• #tow10 …and competent as you can be. And never respect any person, organisation or institution that wants to tell you what to write." #
• #tow10 Kgositsile: "What I would advise any young writer is that: your business as a writer is to write. To be as productive… #
• #tow10 Kgositsile: "Languages are the product of peoples' collective genius, and we have to respect that with humility" #
• #tow10 Kgositsile: "Stories are important, not only because of what one might want to say, but *how* one tells it" #
• #tow10 The very welcome stand-in is none other than national poet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile, who takes the podium #
• #tow10 Wonder if Xingwana's pulling out had anything to do w/Mike van Graan's keynote address (wink, wink). See: http://book.co.za/lggS #
• #tow10 The awards were meant to have been given by minister for arts and culture, Lulu Xingwana, but she's pulled out #
• #tow10 Before the main events, it's time to announce the Time of the Writer Schools Short Story award winners #
• #tow10 Fatima Meer was actually on the TOW programme earlier this week – but didn't appear #
• The Ningizimu Steel & Marimba band #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KfV6C #
• #tow10 As they say, the show must go on. The emcee calls out the Ningimizu Steel and Marimba band #
• #tow10 A moment of silence is observed in the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, Durban, to commemorate the life of Fatima Meer, 1928 – 2010 #
• #tow10 The three most useful Fatima Meer links: news: http://bit.ly/aDdKtC, wiki: http://bit.ly/94wLpx KZN Lit tourism: http://bit.ly/8YOYH3 #
• #tow10 Fatima Meer was born 12 Aug 1928 in Grey Street, Durban. News results on her death: http://bit.ly/aDdKtC #
• #tow10 Meer will receive a state funeral tomorrow in Durban – the rites will conclude with a service at the Grey St Mosque. #
• #tow10 Fatima Meer, the author, activist and biographer of Nelson Mandela, has passed away. #
• #tow10 The emcee takes the podium… and makes an extraordinary and tragic announcement #
• #tow10 …and Sihle Khumalo and Ndumiso Ngcobo, in convo w/Imraan Coovadia. #
• We're in the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, waiting for proceedings to start. On stage tonight: Elana Bregin & Thando Mgqolozana… #tow10 #
• The new Wordsetc cover – 'Crime' issue, featuring Margie Orford #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KbML8 #
• Wordsetc on display #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KfEQA #
• Sihle Khumalo & Ndumiso Ngcobo #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KbK8P #
• #tow10 Anton Krueger just launched his Sunnyside Sal w/an invigorating reading #
• Have made it ti the Time of the Writer in Durban at last. Will be sending tweets via #tow10. #
• Now on BOOK SA: Notes and galleries from three recent Time of the Writer events: http://book.co.za/iqhD #tow10 #
• Ann Donald Voices Cover Blurb Skepticism http://book.co.za/0SsY #
• Rustum Kozain in Conversation with Breyten Breytenbach http://book.co.za/iybA #
• I posted 33 photos on Facebook in the album "The Launch of Testing Democracy and Lobby Books" http://bit.ly/bqUeqR #
• I posted 46 photos on Facebook in the album "Rustum Kozain in Conversation with Breyten Breytenbach" http://bit.ly/9kqEpT #
• @KevBloom Agree – terrific piece by Sampson on Fugard. http://book.co.za/7w6r in reply to KevBloom #
• @forteeseven I was told next week, or the following one. You could ask @exclusivescoza – they might have more accurate info in reply to forteeseven #
• Link Love: Spier Contemporary 2010 and Wrap Day http://book.co.za/yqv2 #
• Now on BOOK SA: an excerpt from Mike Nicol's Time of the Writer keynote address, The State of the Arts: http://book.co.za/lggS #
• James Mitchell Reviews Truth by Peter Temple http://book.co.za/ZT6T #
• Lin Sampson Profiles Athol Fugard http://book.co.za/7w6r #
• @LaurenBeukes tweeted this post about SA sci-fi – but H Rose-Innes got to it first http://book.co.za/ysqD http://bit.ly/ajzTLo #
• #x1s That does indeed appear to be the end of the formalities. Will tweet anything else of interest. #
• #x1s Exclusives branded water, w00t http://flic.kr/p/7K3Bjo #
• #x1s …and Morris wraps up with a traditional "watch this space". Not sure if that's the formal end of proceedings, will keep a-tweeting #
• #x1s I might put in a punt for Little White Bakkie here: we'll also be carrying local Pan Mac titles very soon #lwb #ebooks #
• #x1s Morris (Terry) was introduced by Morris (Evan), who mentioned that local Pan Mac ebooks will be for sale on http://www.exclus1ves.co.za soon #
• #x1s Morris mentions Pan Mac US's recent battle with Amazon over ebook pricing, presents a short pro-Pan Mac case. #
• #x1s …on Amazon UK. #
• #x1s Morris mentions the "free download" marketing strategy created around Twitter and "Men Who Stare at Goats" – took the book to no 1… #
• #x1s Morris: Risk-taking, decisiveness and innovation are going to be imperative for publishers. #
• Terry Morris #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JYuXP #
• #x1s "In contrast to traditional publishing," however, "the internet is going to be a great leveller in this space." #
• #x1s Morris launches straight into ebooks and ereaders. Amazon, Apple and Google are going to be fearsome competitors for booksellers #
• Pippa Tshabalala #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JYtvV #
• Pippa Tshabalala #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K3pew #
• #x1s Next and last, Terry Morris on books. She's the MD of Pan Macmillan. "The great thing for us is that books and reading are sexy again" #
• #x1s Tshabalala: In short, gaming can – and will – change the world. And that's a wrap for her. #
• #x1s Tshabalala mentions http://thepiratebay.org No one particularly squirming, though. #
• #x1s Tshabalala: Gaming is the ultimate in online collaboration. Common theme among all speakers is SA's terrible web connectivity. #
• #x1s Tshabalala mentions the controversies surrounding DRM and gaming. She seems anti-DRM, which is a refreshing stance #
• #x1s Example: who knows that MMORPG = "massively multiplayer online role playing game"? Not too many in this room #
• #x1s Tshabalala starts off with a tech-and-gaming show-of-hands quiz to separate the gamers from the rest of us #
• #x1s Next up, The Verge's Pippa Tshabalala on gaming and #digital. #
• #x1s Kenan: Conclusions: music is on the rebound, better positioned than it has been in years. Biz is up, in fact, in Australia and Sweden. #
• #x1s Kenan: New online revenue models: 1. "A La Carte" (iTunes) 2. "Subscription" (hasn't done so well) 3. "Ad supported" (iffy) 4. "Hybrid" #
• @kenyanpundit Very much agree. It's a long way off in Africa, though. in reply to kenyanpundit #
• #x1s Kenan: "Customers are in control, and attention is the new currency." Build and audience first, then target revenue. #digital #
• #x1s Kenan: "Understanding the context of content is the key to unlocking the value of copyright." #digital #
• #x1s BTW, @exclusivescoza is also livetweeting the presentation, using #exclusives #
• #x1s Kenan: How do you fight against free? #digital Answer: by adding value for the customer. #
• #x1s Kenan: Keep inventing. If you're not doing it, someone else is. #digital Don't try to control the future, work to be part of it. #
• #x1s Kenan: When it comes to digital, embrace change, embrace tech. Expect further disruption. (Good thing a lot of publishers are here #
• #x1s Kenan: Good news is that music is built to be social. Where are we going? What can we learn from the likes of Susan Boyle? #
• #x1s Kenan: 6 major music companies in 97, 4 in 2010, soon to be 3? 5 mil bands on MySpace, & 95% of music downloaded is illegal, he says. #
• #x1s Kenan: 2001: final disruption: the iPod. Global music industry stats: from $40 bn to $17 bn 1997 – 2010, which includes digital. #
• #x1s Kenan: 1999: another disruption, named "Napster", which "we in the music industry handled disastrously" #
• Yoel Kenan #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JYecg #
• #x1s Kenan starts by recalling a "disruption" in the music industry, launched in 1997 in Germany: the mp3 file format. #
• #x1s Next up, Yoel Kenan, who ran http://www.mp3.com in Europe, and is now based in SA. He's to speak about… you guessed it… music #
• #x1s Human: "2010 might be a big year for football, but watch out for the download-to-own or -rent revolution soon." #
• #x1s Human predicts that DSTV will launch a direct-download video service in the new future. A competitor of http://www.exclus1ves.co.za – ? #
• #x1s Human: "The DVD market in South Africa currently comprises 6 mil homes w/DVD players." Purchases peaked in 2006-07. #
• #x1s Human now talking about digital flim, likely more up http://www.exclus1ves.co.za's alley #
• Ricky Human #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JY8Jk #
• #x1s Must confess am not sure how 3D relates to http://www.exclus1ves.co.za producs – is 3D possible on DVD? #
• #x1s Human is talking about 3D films – comparing it to the switch from B&W movies to colour ones in the 20th century #
• #x1s First up, on movies, is Ricky Human of Nu Metro films (which, unless I'm wrong, is owned by the same company as EB, Avusa). #
• #x1s …and there will now be a speaker to address each one of those four items (music, movies, games and books). #
• #x1s The http://www.exclus1ves.co.za strapline: "Where movies, music, games and books live together" #
• Evan Morris of http://www.exclus1ves.co.za #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JY4Kz #
• #x1s Morris: http://www.exclus1ves.co.za is very tightly integrated into the EB "Fanatics" system; you can now spend Fanatics vouchers online #
• #x1s Delivery of books, etc., from http://www.exclus1ves.co.za to any EB store is… free! Nice. #
• #x1s Morris: "The site has an elegant design… for grownups… and is backed up by EB's world class supply chain and distribution systems #
• #x1s …comments, lists, social sharing, etc. #
• #x1s …"best of breed" search engine, plus a set of tools that allows users to "co-create" content on the site/catalogue. Reviews… #
• #x1s …that we're excited about is ebooks, which we'll be selling by the thousand." Morris mentions the new site's… #
• #x1s Morris "The product catalogue as it stands will please most people – and it's constantly expanding. One product category…. #
• #x1s But what's in the store? Books, obviously – by the millions (literally). DVDs, from all the movie houses. Games across all platforms #
• #x1s Morris is talking video embeds, podcasts, game previews, and much more: not just a store, but an online entertainment centre. #
• #x1s ….that was integrated into existing social networks, that people would visit even if they didn't want to purchase anything." #
• #x1s Evan Morris is EB's online retail guru: he's the man behind http://www.exclus1ves.co.za. "We wanted to build a website… #
• #x1s …and online retail meet. Evan Morris: "Fortunately, at EB, we've been running a social network since 1951" #
• #x1s And let the games begin. A rather loud video announces http://www.exclus1ves.co.za, a new portal where social networking… #
• We've been herded by Superman, Mario, C3P0 and Freddy Kruger into the presentation room #x1s #
• @TallStoriesBook The day you get a small bookshop retail presence that I can index on scale, we'll add it to our BOOK Finder in reply to TallStoriesBook #
• Pan Macmillan and Jonathan Ball people at the EB do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K2D9o #
• The Penguin Books team at the EB do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JXFPF #
• Evan Morris, Yoel Kenan, Ricky Human, Pippa Tsabalala and Terry Morris at the EB do #1xs http://bit.ly/d8b0xk #
• @TallStoriesBook Not in terms of having microsites, but we do sell books through our online affiliates, Kalahari, EB and Loot in reply to TallStoriesBook #
• Welcome to Exclus1ves.co.za http://book.co.za/l5QB #
• Evan Morris, Yoel Kenan, Ricky Human, Pippa Tsabalala and Terry Morris at the EB do #1xs http://flic.kr/p/7K2bQm #
• The speakers and entertainment at the EB do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K279f #
• Evan Morris and Yoel Kenan at the Exclusives do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K24PE #
• Mario, Freddy Kruger, Evan Morris, Superman and Batya Green-Bricker at the EB do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K24Jb #
• You'll have noticed I'm tweeting w/ #x1s – for a good reason to be revealed shortly. Hi to @ArthurJonesSA, from Men's Health #
• In the kombi with me is @megankakora from Cosmopolitan.co.za #x1s #
• En route to the Exclusive Books do – the relaunch of their online retail portal #x1s #
• Christy Weyer Reviews Halfborn Women by Colleen Higgs http://book.co.za/gte9 #
• Some serious 'Native Nostalgia' on @KaraboKgoleng's #safm show #music #
• #cwp10africa That concludes our Commonwealth Writers' Prize – Africa Region coverage. Thanks for tuning in! http://book.co.za/2qEb #
• #cwp10africa Congratulations to both winners! Heese from SA and Nwaubeni from Nigeria. http://book.co.za/2qEb #
• #cwp10africa To clarify an error in a prev tweet: Best Book = Marie Heese; Best First Book = Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani http://book.co.za/2qEb #
• #cwp10africa Marié Heese and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Win the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize – Africa Region Awards http://book.co.za/2qEb #
• #cwp10africa Elmarie Stodart from @JonathanBallPub, which distributes Nwaubani's book, accepts the award on her behalf. #
• #cwp10africa …who hails from (and still lives in) Nigeria. The announcement was made by Acting India HC Shambhu Kumaran. #
• #cwp10africa Now it's time to announce the Best First Book winner… and it's I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani… #
• #cwp10africa Now Heese is speaking extempore – very well one might add. #
• #cwp10africa …which is The Double Crown by Marie Heese, published by Human & Rousseau. She's in the audience and looks delighted. #
• #cwp10africa British High Commissioner Nicola Brewer announces the winner of the Best First Book prize… #
• #cwp10africa Sisulu: choosing winners was an enormous challenge, but it's time to get on w/it. #
• #cwp10africa …are in the CWP Africa committee's thoughts. #
• #cwp10africa Sisulu mentions the recent violence in Jos, Nigeria, connects it to SA's xenophobic violence, says Africans under duress… #
• #cwp10africa Also mentions @BOOKSA! Thanks, ES …and of course the emcee, Lebo Mashile. #
• #cwp10africa Sisulu also thanks @VictorDlamini and @Mimi0 of Chillibush, and Thebe Investments, who put the event together #
• #cwp10africa Sisulu: Thanks to the SABC, the British High Commissioner, my fellow judges and India's Acting High Commissioner (just arrived) #
• #cwp10africa Mashile now calls up Elinor Sisulu, the CWP chair for the Africa Region. #
• #cwp10africa Mashile: "African literature can't be put into a box. It's an exciting time to be an African writer." #
• #cwp10africa Ojwang: But the judges were very pleased by the emphasis on our common humanity in all the texts. And he concludes. #
• #cwp10africa Ojwang: "With the exception of SA, the strongest entrants came from publishers in Europe and the USA" #
• #cwp10africa Ojwang: "These problems all draw attention to the state of the publishing industry on the African continent" #
• #cwp10africa Ojwang: On the minus side, many entrants' texts exhibited technical and stylistic flaws: poor grammar, fragmented plots #
• #cwp10africa …of human experience." Ojwang continues that it was a joy, therefore, to find so much humour among the shortlistees. #
• #cwp10africa Ojwang: "One key complaint about African writing is that it tends to be perceived as sad, rarely capturing the full range… #
• #cwp10africa Ojwang mentions that Eric Babu (sp?) an entrant, but not a shortlistee, is a writer to watch #
• #cwp10africa Ojwang notes moments of comic relief in the shortlistees, incl a book, set in 16th C, that features Land Rovers & blue jeans #
• #cwp10africa …about the other shortlistees ( http://book.co.za/BMYF ) #
• #cwp10africa Dan Ojwang, CWP Africa judge, live at the announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JZv8W #
• #cwp10africa Ojwang: singles out Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Erica Emdon for especial praise, but also has good words to say… #
• #cwp10africa Ojwang: "In spite of the harrowing experiences in the novels, none of them resort to neat endings" that might be expected #
• #cwp10africa Ojwang: broad African lit trends: high number of entries that concentrated on human trafficking (incl SA's A Brown's Refuge) #
• #cwp10africa Ojwang notes that 10 of the 14 shortlistees come from women writers. #
• #cwp10africa Ojwang: SA and Nigeria continue to dominate African literary production. Ojwang himself is from East Africa. #
• #cwp10africa Now an overview of the competition. One of the 3 CWP Africa judges, Dan Ojwang, takes the podium. #
• #cwp10africa And Brewer concludes. Mashile mentions that she saw the British govt's commitment to culture at a poetry dinner last night. #
• #cwp10africa Brewer "One thing that all CW members have in common is English". The written word has the power to cross national boundaries. #
• #cwp10africa Brewer: "Last year we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Commonwealth". It covers 1/3 of the world's population. #
• #cwp10africa Brewer thanks the SA Dept of Arts & Culture for supporting SA's involvement in #lbf10, mentions that Min Xingwana will be there #
• #cwp10africa Brewer is now on to the London Book Fair (#lbf10) "It demonstrates how, in this year, the spotlight is very much on SA" #
• #cwp10africa Brewer receives the Man Booker Prize shortlisted books every year from her father. #
• #cwp10africa Brewer: Diplomacy, development and diversity represent the three mandates of her profession #
• #cwp10africa …on the SABC? <Applause> Mashile then introduces the keynote speaker, the British High Commissioner, Nicola Brewer. #
• #cwp10africa Molefe wishes the winners best of luck in the overall competition. Mashile: what about a lit show, a "Lebo's book club"… #
• @urbanrenewal #cwp10africa Ah, Soli, what a memorable performance he gave at the 2008 CWP finals in Franschhoek. Just pirouetted on the edge in reply to urbanrenewal #
• #cwp10africa Molefe: CWP is one of the world's premier literary awards – its significance can be seen in the success of Uwem Akpan #
• #cwp10africa Molefe: "Freedom of literary expression is paramount in a democratic state". The SABC is pleased to host the CWP awards. #
• #cwp10africa Molefe "I'm pleased to inform you that in April, the SABC will be hosting the Commonwealth Broadcasting Assoc" #
• #cwp10africa Mashile asks the SABC's Phil Molefe to say a few words. #
• #cwp10africa The British High Commissioner is here and Mashile mentions the #lbf10. The HC has brought along #lbf10 programmes. #
• #cwp10africa And now we begin in earnest. Mashile formally welcomes the guests – media and literary and political dignitaries. #
• #cwp10africa Here, by the way, are the two shortlists for the 2010 Best Book and Best First Book CWP prizes: http://book.co.za/BMYF #
• #cwp10africa And the reading concludes. Now Lebo Mashile reads from Best First Book shortlistee Jelly Dog Days by Erica Emdon. #
• Lebo Mashile, emcee, live at the #cwp10africa announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JVpkR #
• … The Double Crown: Secret Writings of the Female Pharaoh, by Marie Heese, a Human & Rousseau author. It's up for Best Book. #cwp10africa #
• Lebo Mashile, emcee, live at the #cwp10africa announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JVpaB #
• #cwp10africa Emcee Lebo Mashile takes the podium, introduces Amina Blackwood-Meeks of Jamaica, who reads from one of the shortlisted books.. #
• Dawn Garisch, a CWP shortlistee, live at the #cwp10africa announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JZhE7 #
• Marie Heese, CWP shortlistee, live at the #cwp10africa announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JVmHt #
• Andrew Brown, a CWP shortlistee, live at the #cwp10africa awards http://flic.kr/p/7JVm5V #
• Follow #cwp10africa for the latest tweets #
• Carrots for Three from the Humour Section http://book.co.za/ybwn #
• Apparently, our Nadira Naipaul / Winnie Mandela piece – http://book.co.za/wWaU – was on pg 2 or 3 of The Mercury today. Anyone see it? #
• I uploaded a YouTube video — Conversation from the Middle World (4) Breyten Breytenbach with Rustum K… http://youtu.be/wukPGuGTozU?a #
• I uploaded a YouTube video — Conversation from the Middle World (3) Breyten Breytenbach with Rustum K… http://youtu.be/rkHuwbVsb2c?a #
• I uploaded a YouTube video — Conversation from the Middle World (2) Breyten Breytenbach with Rustum K… http://youtu.be/fmZYHBwuRSY?a #
• I uploaded a YouTube video — Conversation from the Middle World (1) Breyten Breytenbach with Rustum K… http://youtu.be/1umG67cHP1I?a #
• BB: If you want to know anything about history, go to the poetry. – And that's a wrap. #readsa #
• BB quotes fellow sojourner Edward Said: 'A good man is at home anywhere; a better man, nowhere.' #readsa #
• … it's to do right by the Palestinians (which doesnt mean do wrong by the Israelies). #readsa #
• Now we're into Q&A. BB, on the USA, says that if there's one thing he'd ask the US to do #readsa … #
• …through continued action to bring about a new politics. #readsa #
• BB: all of us – descendants of slaves, of conquerors – have a duty to pay homage to those who brought SA out of apartheid… #reads #
• BB agrees w/RK & calls for a compassionate activism. #readsa #
• RK to BB: How do all the brokenhearted people speak to one another about their brokenheartedness? #readsa #
• RK to BB: Im starting to wonder whether love isn't the best metaphor with which to approach SA. #readsa #
• RK to BB: what struck me most was the essay's emotional tone. I read it as a love letter from the broken-hearted. #
• Now we're on to BB's essay 'Mandela's Smile' #readsa #
• RK to BB – I read your essays as written by a Romantic, w/a capital 'R'… it's one element of a literature of testimony. #readsa #
• Human beings need contradiction & ambiguity… Malema says he's a communist, for example. -BB (to laughter) #readsa #
• To become creolised… and not to realise it, validate it, is a tremendous loss, because what do we have to fall back on? – BB #readsa #
• RK refers to BB's examination of the 1st use of the term 'Afrikaner', which designated a creolised person (racially, linguistically). #reads #
• I cant take more than two months of this country [at a time]. – BB #readsa #
• The mistake we make is to think that we are normal now. People become willfully blind to the unresolvedness of things. -BB #readsa #
• What we call 'identity' is a kind of stasis… a crystalisation of certainties… there's no movement there. – BB #readsa #
• What's the use of a mind if you can't even change it? – BB #readsa #
• RK & BB at the BL #readsa http://flic.kr/p/7JLb5r #
• Mervyn Sloman announces that BB has won the inaugural Mahmoud Darwish literary award #readsa #
• RK & BB at the BL #readsa http://flic.kr/p/7JQ2ML #
• RK & BB @ The Book Lounge #readsa http://flic.kr/p/7JQ14h #
• The Book Lounge is PACKED for Breyten Breytenbach's convo w/Rustum Kozain #readsa #
• A short story about the Google of the future, "Robot Exclusion Protocol" by Paul Ford: http://bit.ly/9wILfz #
• Verushka Louw resenseer Daddy's Girl deur Margie Orford http://book.co.za/nd3Z #
• Something Wicked This Way Goes http://book.co.za/PP82 #
• If you haven't seen it yet, here's the update on the Penguin Prize for African Writing: http://book.co.za/X5o2 #
• Uganda's Daniel Omanya won a short story competition organized by the African Writers' Trust: http://bit.ly/c0wlUx #
• Enter the 2nd Annual SA Wine Writers Award http://book.co.za/kdfw #
• How to: Write Your Book and Self Publish It: http://book.co.za/F6JD #
• Now on BOOK SA: Margie Orford gets a UK Times carrot & filming for @JohnvandeRuit's Spud movie starts http://book.co.za/ #
• Now on BOOK SA: Notes, photos and podcast from the opening of the 13th Time of the Writer lit fest in Durban: http://book.co.za/RkxU #
• Book Excerpt: Kings of the Water by Mark Behr http://book.co.za/6ikW #
• Now on BOOK SA: the 2010 Franschhoek Literary Festival programme: http://book.co.za/QcnJ #
• The programme for the 2010 Franschhoek Literary Festival. Note: events are subject to change.
  http://www.flf.co.za
  htt… http://bit.ly/90ggkr #
• The Day-to-Day "One Nation Many Voices" London Book Fair SA Cultural Programme http://book.co.za/WiZj #
• Karina Magdalena Szczurek Reviews Counting Sleeping Beauties by Hazel Frankel http://book.co.za/YNX3 #stick #
• @Grondwerk Duidelik? Oh, wait… in reply to Grondwerk #
• @Grondwerk Hm, "ace" doesn't quite do it. What about "heavy"? BB is a heavy – ? in reply to Grondwerk #
• RT @e_relevant http://is.gd/a2VRI South Africa's most expensive eBook <- Just R137,313.86 #
• @Grondwerk En so, hy moet sweet? in reply to Grondwerk #
• Nadira Naipaul Writes on Her Visit (with VS) to South Africa, Opens Can of "Winnie vs Nelson Mandela" Worms http://book.co.za/wWaU #
• Registration for the 2010 Jozi Book Fair is Now Open http://book.co.za/JWlg #
• Zandra Bezuidenhout resenseer Bloot mens deur Jelleke Wierenga http://book.co.za/gC4d #
• Debashine Thangevelo Reviews Maha, Ever After by Sumayya Lee http://book.co.za/qwqn #
• @PenguinbooksSA Says that an update on the Penguin Prize for African Writing is imminent – follow them if you've submitted an MS. in reply to PenguinbooksSA #
• Also now on BOOK SA: Aernout Zevenbergen writes for self-publishers on how to get books into Kenya http://book.co.za/Dvap #
• Now on BOOK SA: 2 syndicated columns: Denis Beckett on BEE http://book.co.za/jtru & Mark Gevisser on Zuma & the UK http://book.co.za/RK2m #
• @laurenbeukes I would know it #tomthumbs in reply to laurenbeukes #
• It was posted rather early this a.m., so I'm giving it another too: Niq Mhlongo's "How to write" tips, via @ReadSA: http://book.co.za/baiD #
• RT @blacklooks @kenyanpundit @geekrebel:9 million cellphone users in Uganda, 2.7 m mobile internet users. #digitalafrica #
• More digital reporting from @GuardianBooks: book apps outstrip game apps on the iPhone: http://bit.ly/alrNx8 #
• Dramas, skrywers en skole wen by die 2010 Woordfees http://book.co.za/74dv #
• Via @GuardianBooks, the NYT is to start offering its book review pages on e-readers: http://bit.ly/9NC3H3 #
• @e_relevant has excellent further analysis on the Kalahari.net ebook store ( http://book.co.za/YkfD ) at http://bit.ly/9hhRFt in reply to e_relevant #
• The U of Pretoria's 4th creative writing winter school costs R5000, starts 24 May, and features Krog, Tadjo & others: http://bit.ly/aneu5C #
• Damon Galgut's The Impostor now avail as an audiobook (8 hrs 18 mins!) narrated by Humphrey Bower: http://bit.ly/bImBHd #
• Denis Hirson to give a poetry reading at The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore in Paris on 15 April: http://bit.ly/dswpKL #
• Andre Brink headed to the Hong Kong International Literary Festival: http://bit.ly/da0KAg #
• Kalahari Launches its eBook Store http://book.co.za/YkfD #
• Carol Brammage Reviews Jelly Dog Days by Erica Emdon http://book.co.za/lG93 #
• Now on BOOK SA: How to Write: Tips from Niq Mhlongo http://book.co.za/baiD (RT @ReadSA) #
• Now on BOOK SA: Liesl Jobson's post on International Women's Day (8 Mar): http://book.co.za/YqKo #
• Here's the first Apple iPad advertisement, which aired during yesterday's #oscars: http://bit.ly/93i7yi #
• @LanceArmstrong's 1st #africa #capeargus tweets: http://www.quoteurl.com/39cuo <- Almost sent back by Home Affairs: http://bit.ly/cUKlfB #
• Liam Kruger and Sophy Kohler http://flic.kr/p/7JhSyv #
• @KevBloom writes sympathetically on Ryszard Kapuscinski http://bit.ly/cYV9GE #
• Poets Yvette Christiansë and Gabeba Baderoon Respond to Minister Lulu Xingwana http://book.co.za/9GFZ #
• Breytenbach se 70ste lewensjaar gevier met Verse in my vingers (Foto's en Video) http://book.co.za/98fF #
• I posted 15 photos on Facebook in the album "Tonele uit "Verse in my Vingers"" http://bit.ly/dpJdtT #
• @blacklooks Call for short stories: new queer African fiction: http://bit.ly/anI6GD #
• Call for short stories: new queer African fiction: http://bit.ly/anI6GD #
• I posted 7 photos on Facebook in the album "Hennie Aucamp by Woordfees" http://bit.ly/d6pkMT #
• The Great Texts / Big Questions lecture this week will be by RoseLee Goldberg, a global authority on performance art: http://bit.ly/dmx72I #
• Via @modjaji_bks, the most poorly attended Small and Indie Press book fair in NYC in recent memory: http://bit.ly/93NOrO #
• Shimmer Chinodya on the Political and the Personal at Woordfees http://book.co.za/24FL #
• Celeb alert! Basetsana Kumalo is reading The Monk who Sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma: http://bit.ly/cQFEi7 #
• Petina Gappah Shortlisted for the £25 000 Sunday Times (UK) Short Story Award; and Set to Write for the ST in SA http://book.co.za/BDsn #
• BOOK SA's Week in Liveblogging: Commonwealth Writers' Prize, EB Web Portal Launch and the 13th Time of the Writer http://book.co.za/w7eU #
• @nabukay Hey, that's brilliant news – congratulations! in reply to nabukay #
• Palesa Morudu Reviews The Honour to Serve: Recollections of an Umkhonto Soldier by James Ngculu http://book.co.za/ZcJ9 #
• @art2gee Congrats! & It's never too late for a single malt. Have a wee one. in reply to art2gee #
• @BorowitzReport That would be a 'yes'. And from Cape Town, SA, no less. in reply to BorowitzReport #
• @urbanrenewal It's glorious! I'm soaked! Thank the deity! in reply to urbanrenewal #
• RT @BorowitzReport Oscar producers say if he wins tonight, James Cameron's ego will be presented in IMAX. <- Ho ho #
• See comments on this post – http://book.co.za/MYHO – for details of the 2011 El Gouna, Egypt writers residency. App deadline is 31 June. #

Alert! BOOK SA’s busy week will culminate in a frenzied bout of liveblogging on Thursday, Friday and Saturday – and all in the name of keeping you as up to date on matters SA and Africa Lit as possible, gentle reader.

First up, BOOK SA is the official media partner for the announcement of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – Africa region winners, which will take place on Thursday morning. We’ll liveblog the affair direct from the Johannesburg presser, using the hashtag #cwp10africa. Tune in from about 10:45 am – and click here to see who’s shortlisted.

The same day, in the afternoon, we’ll be coming to you live from the launch of the new Exclusive Books web portal, which will take over from www.exclusivebooks.com at a catchy new URL to be named very, very soon. Speakers at the launch will include Pippa Tshabalala, presenter of MNet’s The Verge, Terry Morris of Pan Macmillan, Yoel Kenan of Africori and editor of Stuff magazine Toby Shapshak. Watch for coverage on BOOK SA’s front page from about 3:45pm.

Finally, on Friday and Saturday, BOOK SA will head to Durban for the tail end of the 13th Time of the Writer litfest, where we’ll be tweeting mainly the concluding evening events with #tow10. Of course, you can expect ongoing coverage of the TOW on BOOK SA from its kickoff tomorrow.

Don’t miss out on all the literary action!

• Alt Sunday Read no. 2: In the US, a down-and-out writer goes in search of an acre: http://bit.ly/cfeKiW #
• Alt Sunday Read no. 1: Against internet commenting (a lesson involving Richard Dawkins): http://bit.ly/9ZDspM #
• Sunday Read: Excerpt from Philip Wilding's Cross Country Murder Song http://book.co.za/OIEl #
• Now on BOOK SA: 2 Sat reads! @RicharddeNooy's Homo Cybericus http://book.co.za/8DNd & M Orford's Blood Rose notes http://book.co.za/YWY8 #
• @riette2roos Tks – my guess is that it will start w/41. Keep me posted! #
• @riette2roos One more favour – go to http://whatismyip.com and tweet me w/the IP address that appears there. Tks! #
• @riette2roos Can you supply me with a sample link? i.e., one that starts w/ http://book.co.za or http://bit.ly – thanks. in reply to riette2roos #
• Via @TheBookseller, the iPad to go on sale in the UK in late April. Will those arriving for #LBF10 be able to get one? http://bit.ly/cHKEWh #
• Link Love: Xhosa Women's Voices http://book.co.za/9g8K #
• @SolarisBooks Has 10 rules for writing & getting published (via @laurenbeukes): http://bit.ly/9KHOWM #
• Rather delighted w/the #ff support. Thanks @africanpenguin @Revenge_Ink @EmiratesLitFest and @RachaelPapers ! #
• Riana Scheepers resenseer Die Huis van die digter: En ander liefdesverhale deur Hennie Aucamp http://book.co.za/GVuq #
• James Mitchell Reviews Fighting Elites by Nigel Cawthorne http://book.co.za/wmih #
• @KaraboKgoleng Bless you! in reply to KaraboKgoleng #
• RT @SiberInk State fingers itch for 5% of private pensions to fund 'development projects'. http://bit.ly/bLClwv <- "Radical" stuff #
• @RachaelPapers, @gavinweale, @daniel_crewe Good to see you're taking in the local book launch scene http://book.co.za/huma #ukype10 #
• RT @laurenbeukes RT @damiengwalter: Amazon launches nukes at publishers, go direct to agents, authors for ebook rights http://bit.ly/apU6cJ #
• Nice & busy Friday on BOOK SA. Ingrid Woolfaardt weighs in on the new Cape Town airport: http://book.co.za/lQRu #cpt #
• Ann Donald on Antjie Krog and Begging to be Black http://book.co.za/5YKZ #
• @brodiegal That's so very true! In a single tweet, you've changed the way I've listened to the radio. in reply to brodiegal #
• @urbanrenewal @Grondwerk It's a medium travelling award, apparently. in reply to urbanrenewal #
• @urbanrenewal No, a travel company in reply to urbanrenewal #
• @FCoRT Hey, thanks man! in reply to FCoRT #
• To the annals of useless email signatures, add this gem, now in my inbox: "Voted 2nd Best Medium Sized Company to Work For in South Africa" #
• @urbanrenewal I think he'd be game. He's in a moering mood, as you saw. Bloody contrarian! in reply to urbanrenewal #
• A Friday treat. Now on BOOK SA: Sven Eick interviews himself! http://book.co.za/W0Ba #
• Leon de Kock and Stephen Coan ( http://bit.ly/cPPJX7 ) review Philip Roth's "The Humbling" in the same week: http://bit.ly/9BcmYa #
• I enjoyed this ST obit for Madeleine van Biljon, who translated Chris Barnard's memoirs and had a wicked tongue: http://bit.ly/dBpYfN #
• PanSALB Multilingualism Awards: 2010 Winners Announced http://book.co.za/ZO5x #
• Ben Okri, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Brian Chikwava and Binyavanga Wainaina are set for Toronto's annual litfest: http://bit.ly/9YHdOF #
• @laurenbeukes Nice tips, esp the "asshat" one Made the ARB correction. in reply to laurenbeukes #
• Now on BOOK SA: How to Write: Tips from @LaurenBeukes http://book.co.za/0MsA (RT @ReadSA) #
• Via @ a dozen tweeters, the @MailandGuardian's very good piece on the #xingwana #muholi scandal: http://bit.ly/d1DZoI #
• @KathrynWhite_za If you (or anyone) can find a link to the Goldblatt #xingwana broadcast on @702Land, do share, would love to listen in reply to KathrynWhite_za #
• Michela Wrong and Jude Dibia Kick Off the First Lagos BookJam http://book.co.za/g9pH #
• RandomStruik Video: Jan Hennop Interviews Max du Preez http://book.co.za/ijNK <- Good viewing #
• Bongiwe Mchunu Reviews Basotho People at Work by Rene Gosselin http://book.co.za/XuLl #
• Random House Struik launches new website, closes Oshun imprint http://book.co.za/MMkg #
• @victordlamini I second @Mimi0's birthday greetings. Happy birthday friend. in reply to victordlamini #
• Now on BOOK SA: Amitabh Mitra launches a line of tshirts! http://book.co.za/ur8J #
• Launch of Black Flame by Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt @ the Book Lounge, 11 March, 5.30 for 6pm: http://bit.ly/aonlb2 #
• Li Cunxing, author of Mao's Last Dancer, was in SA this week giving talks to raise money for local dance: http://bit.ly/9eWXEG #
• Cobble Crab Publishers will hold their annual Autumn Book Festival from 8-13 March, featuring talks by local authors: http://bit.ly/cFaPt0 #
• Now on BOOK SA: De Waal Venter's poem, "Waking up to life" http://book.co.za/AML5 <- w/rather erm, sweet?, photo #
• #ShortyAwards is popping up all over the place – but it's not trending yet? #
• Michael Kimberley Reviews Talking Balls by John Bishop and Tiki Dickson http://book.co.za/Dgd8 #
• RT @PukuBooks Kiddies Book Sale at Kalahari http://puku.co.za/Caxy #
• @KathrynWhite_za Yes, it's embarrassing to admit that one is part of the meerkat mafia, but proper connectivity trumps all in reply to KathrynWhite_za #
• Today is World Book Day in the UK and Ireland (in SA, we mark it on 23 April): http://bit.ly/cQvO4C #
• @KathrynWhite_za With connectivity, convenience is worth more than cheap rates. Am v happy w/Vodcom 3G, tho my bank balance ain't. in reply to KathrynWhite_za #
• Reading: Ashraf Jamal at The Book Lounge http://book.co.za/SjUs #
• 25 photos of the Okavango Delta, in the @Guardian: http://bit.ly/cEwltS #
• RT @DavidKrut Art and Justice: Explore the Incredible Art of the Constitutional Court http://book.co.za/iTP4 #
• RT @WitsPress Feature on James Currey and Africa Writes Back http://book.co.za/tHf1 #
• Danie Botha resenseer Victoria deur Athol Fugard http://book.co.za/vI5l #
• RT @modjaji_bks The Thin Line, a collection of short stories by Arja Salafranca, due out in April http://book.co.za/cuLK #
• Just in from BOOK SA member Rod Mackenzie: he'll be on Kate Turkington's Radio 702 show, Sun 7 March, 10:30pm: http://bit.ly/aatfLG #
• The official rules for entering the 2011 PEN/Studzinski Literary Award.
  http://news.book.co.za/blog http://bit.ly/aZBt6H #
• @art2gee Thanks for that. in reply to art2gee #
• Update from the Wits Arts and Letters Experience (WALE) http://book.co.za/uyqW #
• Terrific. Via @nicharry, @barryroodt & @urban renewal, why DRM doesn't work: http://bit.ly/9AsllO #
• Now on BOOK SA: Max du Preez and Allister Sparks assail Julius Malema: http://book.co.za/uN1U & http://book.co.za/rYAF #
• Book Excerpt: Small Moving Parts by Sally-Ann Murray http://book.co.za/g70N #
• I posted 4 photos on Facebook in the album "Evita Bezuidenhout's 'n Koeksister vir Zuma" http://bit.ly/bfztC3 #
• Petina Gappah Shortlisted for the LA Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction http://book.co.za/vsIZ #
• Now on BOOK SA: Michiel Heyn's writing tips: http://book.co.za/LwhS (RT @ReadSA) #
• Joan Hambidge resenseer Resident Alien deur Rian Malan http://book.co.za/BxUe #
• Skryf nou in vir die 2010 RSG-Sanlam radiodramaskryfkompetisie http://book.co.za/JaYw #
• Library photographs link no. 2, an oldie but a goodie (and a saddie): an abandoned library in Russia: http://bit.ly/audtpv #
• Library photographs link no. 1: 20 of the world's most beautiful libraries: http://bit.ly/9UvfhD #
• Justin Cartwright to Judge the Man Booker International Prize http://book.co.za/7Olq #
• Maureen Isaacson Reviews Nothing But the Truth: Selected Dispatches by Anna Politkovskaya http://book.co.za/8QwP #
• Cape Town Indie Bookshop War Ignites with the Launch of Testing Democracy and Lobby Books http://book.co.za/Qch2 #
• @ChrisRoperZA Weren't you tweeting about mega-giga-terabytes? What about a hellabyte? http://bit.ly/9o3g5F in reply to ChrisRoperZA #
• RT @FCoRT A blast from the past: a review of my short story The Phoenix, nearly 5 years after it was first written: http://bit.ly/bikofa #
• @brodiegal @charliehuman Yep, very nice. The National's Slow Show http://bit.ly/u6OeD in reply to brodiegal #
• I hate RTing @HuffPost anything, b/c HP is a monster, but this is classic:
  15 Totally Ridiculous Fake Google Products http://bit.ly/crzZKi #
• @magneticshape Good point! Yes, must work harder! in reply to magneticshape #
• @magneticshape OMG! Erm, what? in reply to magneticshape #
• Africa lover Ryszard Kapuscinski (RIP 2007) pioneered the James Frey school of fake reporting, according to new bio: http://bit.ly/dytWHu #
• @blacklooks Pride Book Fair coverage from Cape Town http://book.co.za/Xris #readsa #
• The Fifth Pride Book Fair, A Beautiful Affair in Kalk Bay http://book.co.za/Xris #
• The once and future compact book – Jonathan Gibbs in the UK's Independent on ciggie-pack sized reads: http://bit.ly/bBonct #
• The life of a Chinese writer: Liao Yiwu banned from lit.Cologne fest; read his open letter from Chengdu, Sichuan: http://bit.ly/a71H25 #
• Enter the 2010 Commonwealth Foundation Short Story Competition by 31 March http://book.co.za/NVdf #
• Via @rachaelpapers of @Inpressbooks, notes on digital SA Lit (she's reading Andre Brink on her Kindle!): http://bit.ly/c4e7gj #
• @hwasser Heard it on the radio yesterday. @Anatinus, best person to ask is prob @art2gee. #
• @anna_cn Great to meet you, too. My brief post on our confab: http://book.co.za/1KVz #ukype10 in reply to anna_cn #
• @Anatinus Thanks – that's quite a discrepancy. Split the difference? in reply to Anatinus #
• RT @RandomStruik Video and Photos: Evita's Kossie Sikelela on Cape Talk! http://book.co.za/n0JK #
• Adriaan van den Berg resenseer Dwars: Mymeringe van ’n Bleek Boorling deur Max du Preez http://book.co.za/vdpE #
• Now on BOOK SA: Notice of @LouisGreenberg's "Sins of the Blood", an essay on postmodern vampire novels: http://book.co.za/xMFi #
• @Anatinus Latest I heard was 4.1 million. Compare w/700k DSL accounts. Means 3 mil+ are using it on their phones. in reply to Anatinus #
• Henrietta Rose-Innes kicks off the SA Writers College "write a novel" online course – which starts today: http://bit.ly/aYBgck #
• I posted 36 photos on Facebook in the album "Pride Book Fair" http://bit.ly/9m0IQf #
• UK Young Publishing Entrepreneur Finalists Visit SA http://book.co.za/1KVz #
• André P Brink verander ons denke deur die onsêbare neer te pen http://book.co.za/tOoO #
• Leon de Kock Reviews Refuge by Andrew Brown http://book.co.za/g56M #
• Via @ArthurAttwell, Yann Martel gets fan mail from Barack Obama! http://bit.ly/bMVIYq #
• I posted 10 photos on Facebook in the album "André P Brink by Woordfees" http://bit.ly/dh3p3T #
• SA's arts and culture minister, Lulu Xingwana, slights Muholi exhibition, demands censorship (@blacklooks): http://bit.ly/a9g308 #
• @blacklooks Wish I could help further! Good luck… in reply to blacklooks #
• @GenreStories For more lack of depth perception, see this: http://bit.ly/bvnBkt #
• @blacklooks Have you tried Feedburner for your RSS? Might help: http://feedburner.google.com/ in reply to blacklooks #
• @urbanrenewal @Grondwerk I think Keen Observer's paid to do it. Check this NY Post story from 2009! http://bit.ly/1VNp6z in reply to urbanrenewal #
• 'You can't remember your password because you chose it so very long, long ago – maybe three days afore' Charlie Brooker http://bit.ly/avUUWk #
• @BOOKSA with @RachaelPapers, @anna_cn, @gavinweale, @daniel_crewe & other #ukype10 finalists http://flic.kr/p/7GCtq6 #
• Some really impressive titles at @RachaelPapers' outfit, Inpress. Check out Soothing Music for Stray Cats http://bit.ly/ao6F88 #ukype10 #
• @gavinweale Splendid to meet you and the #ukype10 crew. Hope I didn't talk too fast – it's been known to happen! Enjoy your stay in sunny SA in reply to gavinweale #
• @brodiegal Just for you http://bit.ly/9s0BZi #mm in reply to brodiegal #
• Now on BOOK SA: novelist Zakes Mda's tips on how to write: http://book.co.za/unI8 (RT @ReadSA) #
• Going to Woordfees? (So tempted to call it Antwoordfees, but won't. Really.) Here are the hoogtepunte: http://book.co.za/R3jY #
• Rose Gray, co-founder of London's iconic River Cafe, RIP: http://bit.ly/9q6lIq #
• @Anatinus The good news is that, if Sarah Palin runs for president, she'll lose by approx 42 states. in reply to Anatinus #
• @urbanrenewal Very cheering indeed in reply to urbanrenewal #
• Via @LaurenBeukes, links to three current short story competitions: http://bit.ly/aNT3XS #
• The USA's African Literature Association (ASA) is holding its 2010 conference in Tuscon AZ this 10-14 March: http://bit.ly/cBKGqB #
• RT @DavidKrut Kendell Geers' 2010 FIFA World Cup Poster http://book.co.za/TvLu <- Pretty dramatic #
• @urbanrenewal Ha ha, good point. Retch. in reply to urbanrenewal #
• Here's the best news you're going to hear all day: Human Rights Day is on a SUNDAY this month, meaning: 3-day weekend! #
• Karen Herbert resenseer Goed om te weet: dié feiteboek vir ingeligte Suid-Afrikaners http://book.co.za/WrNg #
• RT @brodiegal RT @marklives: The Martha Stewart Twitslap (in Tweets) http://bit.ly/bRCuOA <- Must read, for Monday cheer #
• Via @GuardianBooks, Hilary Mantel says the age at which women have babies is dictated by men's timetables: http://bit.ly/dsiSHi #
• Via @LaurenBeukes, a NASA-sponsored workshop for writers, LaunchPad (in Laramie, Wyo!): http://bit.ly/daFG9x #
• Breyten Breytenbach Heads to the Cape to Launch Notes from the Middle World http://book.co.za/YUCg #
• Jane Rosenthal Reviews 30 Nagte in Amsterdam by Etienne van Heerden http://book.co.za/UMOQ #
• FIFA 100 day countdown – it's on Tuesday, not Wednesday; and London Book Fair 50 day countdown starts today http://bit.ly/9aPhcR #LBF10 #
• Via @Brodiegal, an @NeilHimself short story called "Cinnamon": http://bit.ly/9Jz94O #
• @langaa_rpcig's 5 upcoming book fairs: http://www.quoteurl.com/niq20 Hey, and don't forget Gothenburg! http://book.co.za/P9zN in reply to langaa_rpcig #
• Alt Sunday Read no. 3 is via @VictorDlamini – 10 reasons to avoid talking on the phone by The Oatmeal #comics: http://bit.ly/9ySGEf #

• Alt Sunday Read no. 2 is *not for Jon Qwelane*. One of sex agony uncle Dan Savage's best columns in years: http://bit.ly/c9TvWd #
• Alt Sunday Read no. 1 is a pretty interesting piece on Anne Hutchinson and heresy: http://bit.ly/aXIVCx #
• Sunday Read: Being Prisoner Khodorovsky http://book.co.za/7faR #
• Alexander Cockburn on the great killer whale slave revolt http://bit.ly/99zi5J #seaworld #orcas #counterpunch #
• The @Guardian's 2010 #WorldCup guide to #CapeTown includes Mitchell's Brewery, V&A brewery, Neighbourhood, Boo Radley's http://bit.ly/c8KwAd #
• @brodiegal She's just as nervous as you are. in reply to brodiegal #
• @brodiegal Wake-up juice: Pavement's "Half a Canyon" – http://bit.ly/bKqkrf <- Slow crescendo to screaming. Serious wrok. in reply to brodiegal #
• Podcast with David "Reality Hunger" Shields, plus his tips on writing: http://bit.ly/c0SD7r #
• Now on BOOK SA: The 1st 100 @GenreStories, erm, stories: http://book.co.za/lqre <- Awesome #
• Ockie Geyser resenseer The Poverty of Ideas deur William Gumede en Leslie Dikeni http://book.co.za/7yWF #
• Nigeria: poet and journalist Odia Ofeimun has been announced as the 2010 winner of the Fonlon-Nichols Award: http://bit.ly/dpYWjb #
• Natasha Mostert got a "stinking radio review" in SA recently. Her advice to writers on how to handle sticks and… http://bit.ly/cEbeIA #
• Ann Donald on the Deserted Poetry Section http://book.co.za/s5ia #
• David Pike Reviews Complete Kak! The Comprehensive Whinger's Guide To South Africa And The World http://book.co.za/zOoP #
• Brent Meersman Interviews Athol Fugard http://book.co.za/eQC6 #
• @brodiegal Feeling dreamy? Mazzy Star "Fade into You" http://bit.ly/A7uJp Feeling peppy? Curtis Mayfield "Move On Up" http://bit.ly/cI2P1u in reply to brodiegal #
• Now on BOOK SA: How to Write: Tips from @SAPartridge http://book.co.za/cLJp (RT @readsa) #
• No #martha exodus twitpic, but @warrenmoss has a good snap of people watching the #MarthaEscape #designindaba feed http://bit.ly/9w0JIU #
• RT @brauteseth I think we just found a new trending topic: #MarthaEscape (by @PaulCartmel) #designindaba (@urbanrenewal @grondwerk) #
• Athol Fugard Brings His New Play, "The Train Driver", Home http://book.co.za/InMB #
• RT @PanMacmillanSA RT @KevBloom UK launch of Ways of Staying is going to be something called a 'bookshop barnie' – ! http://bit.ly/as3Jmi #
• Book Launch: Notes from the Middle World by Breyten Breytenbach http://book.co.za/Eqrx #
• Via @victordlamini & @guardiantech – Google Chrome users, a suite of (tiny) games for you: http://reas.com/twitch/ #
• Annemarie van Niekerk Van Niekerk resenseer Verbeel jou dis somer deur Abraham de Vries http://book.co.za/cMYo #
• RT @JonathanBallPub Mark Gevisser: It's Crazy to Reject Gay Marriage http://book.co.za/Pi8a #
• Sheridan Griswold Reviews White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi http://book.co.za/tnfE #
• Sarah Ruden Publishes Second Volume of Poetry, The New Places http://book.co.za/WRKV #
• RT @brodiegal RT @GuardianBooks: Grisham to write legal thrillers for children http://bit.ly/aBZq8v <- not much change there <- Eina! #
• @petinagappah Go PG go! in reply to petinagappah #
• @magneticshape Ag, dankie man. in reply to magneticshape #
• @vooktv Will certainly keep following vook developments. Just found the vol on the promo a bit too high. in reply to vooktv #
• @arthurattwell @Thandelike Yes, Arthur, I think you're correct about the paraphrase. But if not, then I stand corrected! in reply to arthurattwell #
• Via @LaurenBeukes, @jrobertking, @Steve_Ince & @UnlikelyWorlds (phew!) 10 (funny) rules for writing fiction: http://bit.ly/bSQmqr #
• Jonathan Jansen: SA on the Brink http://book.co.za/2K34 #
• Jenny de Klerk Reviews Wolfstorm by Ian Pugh http://book.co.za/ZW0g #
• Now on BOOK SA: @GenreStories' podcast, "A Quick and Dirty Guide to Screenwriting" http://book.co.za/Una4 #ctlive #
• Book Your Place at the London Book Fair Rights Workshop http://book.co.za/yQyk #
• @KaraboKgoleng No no, a sign of wisdom! in reply to KaraboKgoleng #
• Anton van Niekerk resenseer The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa deur Andrew Nash http://book.co.za/SuiI #
• Maureen Isaacson on the Merits of the London Book Fair http://book.co.za/vRBh #
• Taralyn Bro Gives Carrots to Three Non-Fiction Books http://book.co.za/dDaC #
• Kwani announces a new "The Kenya I Know" call out – this time for poetry: http://bit.ly/c1b4t9 #
• Special Report on new Craig Freidmond (Gums and Noses) movie, Jozi, including trailer and stills: http://bit.ly/bch545 #
• Watch a slideshow of Pieter Hugo's Nollywood series, stills from the Nigerian film industry: http://bit.ly/aoXuE9 #
• Notice from the Book Lounge: on Fri 5 Mar, Christoff Beukes will be launching his debut solo album there: http://bit.ly/dalx97 #
• Inspired by @GuardianBooks, BOOK SA and @ReadSA bring you 'how to write' tips from SA Lit stars! Read Andrew Brown's: http://book.co.za/QqvC #
• Danila Liebenberg resenseer Een hart deur Johannes Prins http://book.co.za/iYAQ #wortel #
• Possibly my fav quote from #toccon: "Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy” — Tim O’Reilly #
• It had to happen. Here's the "vook", which is an ebook w/video, and which is being sold a little too hard, imho: http://bit.ly/9ODgEu #
• Tools of Change for Writers and Publishers from Arthur Attwell: Curation and Licensing http://book.co.za/XBxZ #
• Petina Gappah's "An Elegy for Easterly" Longlisted for the £25 000 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award http://book.co.za/y6Kr #
• Lynn Harnett Reviews Cape Greed by "Sam Cole" (aka Mike Nicol and Joanne Hichens) http://book.co.za/rm4u #
• RT @BorowitzReport Hummer Owners Left Seeking New Ways to Compensate for Tiny Penises http://bit.ly/9aindO #
• @WhaleCottage @lizatlancaster Thanks for the notes! Poor France, Denmark and Japan – going to be wheezing during the Gauteng games. in reply to WhaleCottage #
• @WhaleCottage Which is the third? (Not Brazil – that's a typo, methinks.) in reply to WhaleCottage #
• Via @ElectricBook, Scribd.com inks deal w/Author Solutions, the self-publishing company: http://bit.ly/dngqB6 #
• Proposal: a self-help book that counsels people according to equine personality type: horse, donkey, hinny or mule. http://bit.ly/c692Yi #
• Just heard that of the 32 teams coming for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, only 2 will be based in the Cape. All others in Gauteng, N West or KZN. #
• Hope yet for the standard novel! "Reality Hunger" is trending stickish in @GuardianBooks: http://bit.ly/apaAYu #
• RT @PukuBooks 2010 Exclusive Books Children's Festival Programme http://puku.co.za/UBoN #
• Exclusive Books Childrens Festival – 2010 Programme http://bit.ly/cf1hTc #
• @magneticshape Sjoe! in reply to magneticshape #
• @CarlyW226 Boucher hit the winner in that game, but Gibbs set it up. Let's hope Herschelle is in a similarly violent mood today. in reply to CarlyW226 #
• …and the little master, Sachin Tendulkar, has made history yet again, by scoring 200 in an ODI http://bit.ly/cZg6I3 #cricket #
• #cricket Sachin Tendulkar now has the highest ODI score in history, at 195+. Prev highest were from Anwar and Coventry, who each made 194. #
• Now on BOOK SA: an excerpt from @RicharddeNooy's short story "And the hippo?" #
• Book Excerpt: Trespass by Dawn Garisch http://book.co.za/7BFi #
• @brodiegal Brilliant in reply to brodiegal #
• Thanks to @Brodiegal, I'm now a Swedish hero http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1267011206828RA27 #tackfilm #
• @modjaji_bks Your link didn't quite work, but this one does: Modjaji Books titles now available internationally! http://bit.ly/9AmKL6 in reply to modjaji_bks #
• Exclusive Books to Start Selling eBooks Via its New Online Portal http://book.co.za/e8td #
• @Grondwerk No, next one is in 2012 in reply to Grondwerk #
• @KaraboKgoleng Reset your Twitter password to prevent 3rd-party applications from using your account. in reply to KaraboKgoleng #
• Via @muzhunter and @Grondwerk, Read about SA trams in "Track and Trackless"; review in indispens. Truck & Bus SA: http://bit.ly/bvSuHO #
• @USEmbPretoria – Interview: Chenjerai Hove Finds Refuge in Miami http://book.co.za/bgy2 #
• Interview: Chenjerai Hove Finds Refuge in Miami http://book.co.za/bgy2 #
• Centre for the Book's SA Writers' Symposium (Invitation) http://book.co.za/ztbd #
• 2nd Annual Northern Cape Writers' Festival Programme http://book.co.za/1hir #
• Call for Entries: 2011 PEN/Studzinski Literary Awards http://book.co.za/5A92 #
• Here's the UCT GIPCA "Great Text/Big Questions" lineup, March – August: http://bit.ly/buBvER #
• Jason Norwood-Young: eBooks are Nothing New http://book.co.za/FtIX #
• Margaret von Klemperer Reviews The Artist in the Garden: The Quest for Moses Tladi by Angela Read Lloyd http://book.co.za/dn4e #
• @ByronLoker gives his nine tips for writing fiction: http://bit.ly/bIDMN7 (see comments) #
• Now this is real news: SA intercepts North Korean arms shipment bound for the Congo. Via @TimesLive: http://bit.ly/8Xi2eB #
• Awesome, but symptomatic: the 'Boneyard,' world's biggest plane cemetery, revealed By Google Earth http://bit.ly/bViHrR – via @HuffPostTech #
• Via @VictorDlamini, the five USA PEN/Faulkner shortlistees: http://bit.ly/cwqvtY #
• @GuardianBooks is riding its self-generated "rules for writing fiction" meme; now you can submit yours: http://bit.ly/bIDMN7 #
• The new literature is characterised by "reality hunger", as this carrot for the eponymous book has it: http://bit.ly/9kv3j1 #
• @michelle_matt Yep, looking great! in reply to michelle_matt #
• Follow @glecharles for @arthurattwell's #toccon main points. Go Arthur go! #
• @urbanrenewal Thanks for the link in reply to urbanrenewal #
• Via @TymonSmith – notice of the Zoo Lake book sale, Sunday 28 Feb 10 – 3pm: http://bit.ly/cKR9vc #
• Now on BOOK SA: News that Jacob Dlamini will be attending the FLF: http://book.co.za/KRCa #
• Kuier saam met skrywer Ilse van Staden http://bit.ly/9ZLUOn #
• Interview with Michela Wrong on Exposing the Corruption in Kenya with John Githongo http://book.co.za/6nbC #
• Wium Van Zyl resenseer Kortetjies en 'n lange deur PG du Plessis http://book.co.za/mDfW #
• Beth Shirley Reviews White Lion, the Film Produced by Part of the Pride's Kevin Richardson http://book.co.za/eHxH #
• SA fans of Shaista Justin, alert: interview with her in Open Book Toronto: http://bit.ly/aySwJ6 #
• Now on BOOK SA: the programme for the 13th International Time of the Writer lit fest: http://book.co.za/fmHk #
• Via @TheCallSheetSA, the Raghunath is off air! http://bit.ly/dyaiiQ What will happen to @Grondwerk's Mahendra's Ties? http://bit.ly/aeYtxQ #
• @FCoRT Quite a piece of journalism, hey? #nlng http://bit.ly/bQKFuz in reply to FCoRT #
• @khoi_boi Joy D and the Smiths are VIBs, but their influence on indie waned. Whereas, heard a band just t'other day sounded like The Fall. in reply to khoi_boi #
• More middling muddling on the NLNG prize #nigeria: http://bit.ly/bQKFuz #
• Interview with Athol Fugard http://book.co.za/cOvF #
• Peter Sullivan Reviews Saracen at the Gates by Zinaid Meeran http://book.co.za/hZ8q #
• Nobody liked my late-nite semi-ironical (in tone, not facts) prev tweet. So I suppose I'll have to change tack: http://bit.ly/a5ivXq #
• Right. Am about to nominate The Fall as the taproot font of all indie rock.Who's with me? http://bit.ly/c3zZ7J C'mon guys we can do this! #
• More "how to write" tips from @GuardianBooks – this time they collar Will Self: http://bit.ly/dslaYU #
• RT @Sapartridge: Had to blog about it: http://book.co.za/niSy #onlyinjapan #
• Maureen Isaacson on Breyten Breytenbach: He Just Doesn't Make Sense: http://book.co.za/zp9T #fuck-land #
• Three Percent's BTBA Fiction Finalists #translation: http://bit.ly/azZCxq #
• @surazal36 Hi Lisa – need to ask you a #kindle q. Wonder if you could DM me your tel no. ? #
• Fugard Theatre extends The Magic Flute – Impempe Yomlingo after sellout opening season: http://bit.ly/dqMYWB #
• RT @ChrisRoperZA If Sarah Palin and Juju had a lovechild – that child could rule the world. Of morons. #
• I'm told the Northern Cape Writers Festival is set to kick off this Thurs, but can find no details. Any help? http://bit.ly/9ECRiE #
• US author Toure takes on race and Ralph Ellison's Three Days Before the Shooting (formerly Juneteenth): http://bit.ly/cHdxUd #
• Now on BOOK SA: News of grant for non-SA African publishers who wish to attend the 2010 Cape Town Book Fair http://book.co.za/YxvP #ctbf #
• Heilna Du Plooy resenseer Intimate Stranger: A writing book deur Breyten Breytenbach http://book.co.za/Zja0 #
• PANSA Live Festival: Lauren Beukes and Sam Wilson's Twitter Play on NOW http://book.co.za/bzky #
• @CharacterOne and @CharacterTwo's LIVE Twitter play is now on! Follow it here: http://bit.ly/bn8oCe #
• @KevinMcCallum introduces the Zeftas, "in honour of those who have been Zef in recent times" http://bit.ly/du50gi in reply to KevinMcCallum #
• The National Arts Council's Budget is Slashed http://book.co.za/5Dsd #
• Viva the brave new world of publishing, says Robert McCrum in @GuardianBooks. It's a good time to be a writer: http://bit.ly/9fDa0l #
• Lovely, @victordlamini – thanks #
• @arthurcvanwyk Call the marketing dept at Random House Struik, 021 462 4360 in reply to arthurcvanwyk #
• The Ongoing Google Books Settlement Saga: the USA’s National Writers Union’s Perspective: http://book.co.za/CDy8 #
• Live Twitter play today! Follow @CharacterOne and @CharacterTwo for @WombatSam & @LaurenBeukes' dialogue http://bit.ly/d1kCBJ #
• Now on BOOK SA: the Franschhoek Lit Fest announces two new sponsors: http://book.co.za/BIE1 #
• RT @JonathanBallPub: Jonny Steinberg: Our Lives are Sustained by Economic Apartheid http://book.co.za/XQW6 #
• Sunday Independent Reviews Kings of the Water by Mark Behr http://book.co.za/nOv6 #stick #
• That should be: Now on BOOK SA: @CrimeBeat's Mike Nicol interviews Andrew Brown on "the dreaded genre label". http://book.co.za/lpoU #
• Now on BOOK SA: @CrimeBeat's Mike Nicol interviews Andrew Brown on "the dreaded genre label". #
• @arthurattwell Sounds marvellous, Arthur. Hope you're going to post your presentation online! in reply to arthurattwell #
• @TheRedStone Tks for the note, Craig. Pse mail editor _at_ book [.] co [.] za w/details of yr book. – B in reply to TheRedStone #
• Just saw that Facebook mangled my latest tweet. Here's the "African leaders advice Bono on U2 reform" link: http://bit.ly/6hAdNr #
• Alt. alt. Sunday read, courtesy Isobel Dixon:… { "errorCode": 503, "errorMessage": "Service unavailable.", "statusCode": "ERROR" } #
• @SnowgooseSA Ja, the ad seems to be gone now, tks. Still not sold on the topstrap, though. Most shorteners don't use it. Doesn't look great. in reply to SnowgooseSA #

Alert! The Performing Arts Network of South Africa (PANSA)’s Cape Town Live Festival is now on! Currently, BOOK SA members Lauren Beukes and Sam Wilson have the virtual stage, and are performing a play on Twitter; follow #ctlive for the latest PANSA Cape Town Live Festival offerings (see search box directly below), and follow #cwz for Beukes’ and Wilsons’ contributions.

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Here is more information on the PANSA Cape Town Live festival from the organisation’s website:

• Alt Sunday Read is @brodiegal's tweeted recipe for Chocolate Chiffon Cake: http://bit.ly/c1ANre #
• Sunday Read: Tweny-nine Top Writers Give Their Rules for How to Write Fiction http://book.co.za/YE8v #
• RT @victordlamini: I tweet what I like. #
• @arthurattwell Have a great #toccon – we'll be watching for your tweets! #
• Just heard that Martin Degville of Zigzig Sputnik fame (sic) will be playing Evol in Cape Town tomorrow. Love Missile F1-11 innie huis! #
• RT @PukuBooks IBBY SA Interviews The Book Lounge About Youth Book Trends http://puku.co.za/5ptn #
• The Centre for Humanities Research at UWC presents a discussion with Roger Field on Achmat Dangor and Cavafy: http://bit.ly/dBbcF4 #
• @Grondwerk (Rustum Kozain) has just posted a *mammoth* comment on Richard Poplak's interpretation of Die Antwoord http://bit.ly/9CxegE #
• @Anatinus My productivity's just gone out the window, too, due to your previous tweet http://bit.ly/9O1FOO in reply to Anatinus #
• @Anatinus But then you quickly recover, thinking to yourself, "Ah, but I'm dating a model." in reply to Anatinus #
• Read an Excerpt from the Commonwealth Writers' Prize-Shortlisted Harmattan Rain http://book.co.za/HonZ #
• Now on BOOK SA: @laurenbeukes' The Woman who Loved an Alien http://book.co.za/7etw #
• @USEmbPretoria For a terrific read incorporating Gullah culture, see Canadian Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes http://bit.ly/co69Bq in reply to USEmbPretoria #
• Fresh from @KwaniOnline: Observations From The Nairobi Central Picha Mtaani Street Exhibition: http://bit.ly/bnBlnS #
• The Golf Writers Association of America won't take part in Tiger's presser http://bit.ly/bXLjpA but @borowitzReport will livetweet it #
• @liliradloff @SamWilson1 Ja, but it's a Sears commercial http://bit.ly/cvHQAx (Sears being a US department store) in reply to liliradloff #
• @SnowgooseSA Tks for reply. Maybe adopt a sidebar solution for mzan.si like bit.ly's: http://bit.ly/7L4oiJ Ads there wouldn't be offensive in reply to SnowgooseSA #
• @urbanrenewal @craighallmayor I look forward to the day that Toto opens for Chris de Burgh at Kirstenbosch. in reply to urbanrenewal #
• Quirky reporting from Nigeria: poverty is killing literature: http://bit.ly/djOH2F #
• @urbanrenewal @craighallmayor As with bands, so with mavens: once the SA tour is announced, you know it's been over for them for a while in reply to urbanrenewal #
• RT @urbanrenewal Enough with the Martha Stewart. She's a convicted felon ffs. <- Exactly #
• Ivan Vladislavic to feature in "Sunny Land", a German experimental documentary about Sun City: http://bit.ly/96kxs4 #
• Curiouser and curiouser: @TheBookseller's Diagram Prize shortlist for the book with the year's oddest title: http://bit.ly/coIzIm #
• RT @PenguinbooksSA Richard Poplak Writes on Die Antwoord http://book.co.za/sfYO #
• David Smith Reviews The Democratic King by Burkinabè Aimé Désiré Héma http://book.co.za/qUZP #
• Interview with Sharlto Copely on his "A Team" character, Captain "Howling Mad" Murdoch (plus trailer): http://bit.ly/ctDQra #
• Ebooks and piracy: it won't be as bad as everyone (supposedly) thinks, says @GuardianBooks: http://bit.ly/dntjFX #
• RT @urbanrenewal Marie Osmond explains Dada http://bit.ly/ajSbOm <- Clip of the day/week/20th century. #
• Fail: http://mzan.si is blocking links like @brodiegal's with its *own advertising*. Screenshot: http://bit.ly/cafNmf Hideous & web unsavvy. #
• Thanks to all the RTers of today's Commonwealth Writers' Prize – Africa region post http://book.co.za/BMYF #
• Liesl Louw resenseer The Last Resort en Becoming Zimbabwe http://book.co.za/giXq #
• Maureen Isaacson Reviews Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus by Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully http://book.co.za/rf2M #
• Now on BOOK SA: the 5th annual Pride Book Fair @blacklooks http://book.co.za/LR1K & Kaganof's Freedom Charter Blues http://book.co.za/0haZ #
• The Pride Book Fair at Kalk Bay Books http://book.co.za/LR1K #
• RT @CarlyW226 Oh bother, how very sad… Amla is just unbelievable. Talk about keeping a cool head while others around are losing theirs. #
• No! Augh! Blast! Curses! Dammit! Weeping, waling and gnashing of teeth! Hell and damnation! Gah! Booo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo #cricket #
• 6… overs… left… Tendulkar's part-timer's are raining down… c'mon Amla and Morkel, grit it out! #cricket #
• 12… overs… left… C'mon Amla and Morkel, pull through! #cricket #
• Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer Issues Statement on the Cuban Five http://book.co.za/9qE8 #
• Via @GuardianBooks, excerpt from Jan Petersen's Our Street, which was smuggled out of Nazi Germany in a cake: http://bit.ly/aCbd6E #
• Charl-Pierre Naudé resenseer Die Huis van die digter deur Hennie Aucamp http://book.co.za/lqDX #
• Via @TheBookseller, Hilary Mantel and Eoin Colfer join Andre Brink as the @LondonBookFair's authors of the day: http://bit.ly/bek8pN #
• Bookworm with a View Reviews Come Sunday by Isla Morley http://book.co.za/Myqf #
• Shortlists for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize – Africa Region http://book.co.za/BMYF #
• The 2010 CWP Africa region shortlists for Best Book and Best First Book.
  http://news.book.co.za/blog http://bit.ly/bq1GRb #
• Billy Kahora's New Short Story in Granta: "The Gorilla's Apprentice" http://book.co.za/Xukk #
• Carol Brammage Reviews The Transplant Men by Jane Taylor http://book.co.za/6vo5 #
• @KevBloom on the forthcoming "Book of Jobs" – the biography of Apple's Steve Jobs: http://bit.ly/d29wEn #
• Eight of the best photos of dolphins surfing SA waters that you'll ever see, courtesy Greg Huglin & @Guardian: http://bit.ly/c2rGpt #
• @brodiegal Switch to Google Apps: http://bit.ly/9zjLxn And to Oneida: http://bit.ly/adfRmY in reply to brodiegal #
• Margaret von Klemperer Reviews 'Let Freedom Reign': The Words of Nelson Mandela by Henry Russell http://book.co.za/dXY6 #
• Mostly Carrots: Daily Dispatch Reviews 5 Sports Books http://book.co.za/xQfQ #
• The top-ten @NicDawes' non-budget budget tweets: http://bit.ly/cUJSRk #
• Via @LondonBookFair, Digital Print Solutions in Cape Town says business is booming: http://bit.ly/bvLvpD #
• Book Excerpt: Pops and the Nearly Dead by Edyth Bulbring http://book.co.za/0YZB #
• @urbanrenewal Yep – a deal we have w/the LBF (for the feed, not the language – maar Afrikaans is mos plesierig http://bit.ly/9Pxrra in reply to urbanrenewal #
• 2010 Caine Prize Judges Announced http://book.co.za/lWsK #
• The 15th anniversary edition of the book "What do you Love" will be launched at The Book Lounge on Thurs 25 Feb: http://bit.ly/9X9EIh #
• Press release from Karen Michelle Brooks on her latest Scroll of Seven series / MXit collaboration: http://bit.ly/dtjhS0 #
• Only one week left to enter the 1st Verses Slam Championship for 2010 – Wed 24 Feb at Zula. http://bit.ly/a6ffDI #
• Akin Ajayi: the Penguin African Writers Series is "Stuck in the Past" http://book.co.za/TQKz #
• Gearing up for the Third Wits Arts and Literature Experience (WALE) this April http://book.co.za/QlKF #
• @Grondwerk's 2nd post on BOOK SA is a treatment of Wally Mongane Serote's poem, "City of Johannesburg" http://book.co.za/7nSC #
• Now on BOOK SA: @Grondwerk's review of Antjie Krog's "Begging to be Black" http://book.co.za/jEqx #
• Via @VictorDlamini, a review of "My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times" by Gerald M Boyd: http://bit.ly/deJgId #
• Now on BOOK SA: @modjaji_bks' preview of the new Small Publishers' Catalogue: http://book.co.za/Gc8E #
• Nicholas Shakespeare Reviews A Fork in the Road by André Brink http://book.co.za/Zg4r #
• The London Book Fair's Digital Conference Programme http://book.co.za/psfl #
• Via @BrodieGal, check out mzan.si, SA's very own URL shortener: http://bit.ly/bt4Pqz #
• Via @ElectricBook, the 2010 London Book Fair will focus on digital, and is previewed by a Digital Conference #lbf10: http://bit.ly/anTyA7 #
• Via @KevinBloom and @GuardianBooks, the hard men of Russian Lit: http://bit.ly/dkQjha #
• 100 Stories for Haiti – an initiative by Greg McQueen. See:
  http://news.book.co.za/blog
  http://www.100storiesforHaiti.… http://bit.ly/afXxb3 #
• Fun piece on @DailyMaverick about the R91 mil lotto powerball winner, who isn't what was first reported: http://bit.ly/ctTI6r #
• Everyone: become a fan of the new Mike Nicol page on Facebook: http://bit.ly/910uyK #
• Now on BOOK SA: a preview of the offerings in the latest Imago lit mag: http://book.co.za/oWu0 #
• @laurenbeukes Not to worry, they're mostly pornbots. in reply to laurenbeukes #
• @laurenbeukes Hey, you have more follwers than me, after all. (Ok, one more follower . But still.) in reply to laurenbeukes #
• Via @LaurenBeukes, get yerself into Cape Town's sewers: http://bit.ly/dD8jvY #
• Adéle Dempers resenseer Kook en geniet deur S de Villiers http://book.co.za/gyBe #
• Wiser invite you to another International Visitors Series Seminar, this time with Dereje Wordofa: WISER,… http://bit.ly/9IT953 #
• Now on BOOK SA: @GenreStories announces the winners of Kontax: http://book.co.za/CefW #
• Damon Galgut a PEN / O'Henry Prize Winner; and Set to Direct Waiting for Godot in Cape Town http://book.co.za/BD63 #
• RT @RandomStruik Antjie Krog on Blackness vs Whiteness at Kalk Bay Books http://book.co.za/yS7P #
• Micro carrots for Peter Church, Alistair Morgan, Zoe Ferraris and Uwem Akpan: http://bit.ly/c63ODq #
• Gabeba Baderoon is organising a conference in the US called "The Meanings of Sarah Baartmen": http://bit.ly/aTxM7s #
• Now on BOOK SA: a notice of the launch of Vers-crit * Poem-crit, a new online forum for SA poetry: http://book.co.za/mABn #
• Jane Rosenthal Reviews Black Petals by Bryan Rostron http://book.co.za/SDpr #stick #
• How did I miss this? @laurenbeukes is mentioned as 1 of 25 authors worth watching on Stomping on Yeti: http://bit.ly/djTPbL #
• Got bandwidth? Here's something to run in the background: a video trip along the ENTIRE Trans-Siberian Railway http://bit.ly/afzKjH #
• Press release from the Fugard Theatre following its opening night:

  **

  The Fugard Theatre opening season… http://bit.ly/cCritL #

• You can't legislate writers' earnings, says Ha'aretz, of a mooted Israeli law that would set compensation rates: http://bit.ly/9RwIAa #
• Iran is blocking Goodreads? Via @GuardianBooks: http://bit.ly/bbBMeG #
• Preview of the London Book Fair's SA Market Focus Cultural Programme: Ramphele, Brink, Dangor, Krog and More http://book.co.za/IrUW #lbf10 #
• A press release from the British Council.
  http://news.book.co.za/blog http://bit.ly/c5xD6E #
• BIG NEWS from 2 litfests: Zakes Mda & Oprah's Uwem Akpan for TOW http://book.co.za/fr0M & Philip Gourevitch for FLF! http://book.co.za/huad #
• South African, Nadine Gordimer, is a special guest at the 2010 Havana Book Fair http://bit.ly/9FSgT3 #
• @Anatinus Take an Advil CS. Tons of caffeine in that wee pill. in reply to Anatinus #
• Another UK Invictus review: the Telegraph gives it three stars: http://bit.ly/9cwrWq #
• Sheila Kohler Spotted in NYC with Her Latest Novel: Becoming Jane Eyre http://book.co.za/7PO7 #
• Charlie Brooker likes ebooks! (Well, as much as he can be said to like anything.) In the @guardian: http://bit.ly/bZUvzo #
• Big review in the LA Times for a US work of non-fiction, The Routes of Man, that looks terrific: http://bit.ly/9HZOpk #
• Leon de Kock Gives Mike Nicol's Killer Country a Carrot, but Wonders What Crime Writing Portends for SA Lit http://book.co.za/d50l #
• http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3536978&l=64769aa1f9&id=55793766546 #
• Excerpt from Michael Scammell's new biography of Arthur Koestler, via the @Guardian: http://bit.ly/bVQstQ #
• RT @GuardianBooks Author Dick Francis dies aged 89 http://bit.ly/cRtMOP #

• Alt Sunday read is on the pleasures and benefits of keeping chickens: http://bit.ly/ddhQVn #
• Sunday Read: You've Fallen Out of a Plane and Have Three Minutes to Relax and Prepare to (Possibly) Not Die http://book.co.za/B4pD #
• Find yourself logged out of BOOK SA? It's because we've upgraded (hurrah!): http://bit.ly/9CGew9 http://bit.ly/95JETL #
• Stephen Keim Reviews Wild Law by Cormac Cullinan http://book.co.za/H6JH #
• @michelle_matt Michellin Grrrl, u rawk ons wêrel, got no quarrel, jy's quick like 'n squirrel in reply to michelle_matt #
• @michelle_matt You're in! The Ask has a new member: Michellin Grrrrl. in reply to michelle_matt #
• Dennis Brutus Memorials: Zim's Becomes a Protest, and Maureen Isaacson Covers Joburg's http://book.co.za/ICju #
• @michelle_matt Die Ask! That's what you want, struth. Forget #parow and #antwoord. in reply to michelle_matt #
• @laurenbeukes Then go to space you shall. in reply to laurenbeukes #
• Neil Cochrane resenseer Santa Gamka deur Eben Ventern http://book.co.za/IrL9 #
• News from Shuter & Shooter: you're invited to the launch of "Monty Naicker: Between Reason and Treason" on 5 Mar: http://bit.ly/bS33rH #
• RT @urbanrenewal "Optimize the fireball". http://bit.ly/bWWOqc <- For a good geeky laugh #
• To go with our NLNG piece today – http://book.co.za/uYmQ – here's an interview with Niyi Osundare on the state of… http://bit.ly/9kulqC #
• @Sapartridge Ja, but we're not The Answer, we're The Ask, alternatively, Die Ask, aka Die Vra. in reply to Sapartridge #
• Via the @Guardian: The iPhone is the IE6 of its day; don't dare develop exclusively for it – http://bit.ly/czYoLU #
• How's your Spanish? Here's an interview w/Nadine Gordimer from the Havana Int Book Fair (pdf): http://bit.ly/crXenA #
• Ann Donald on the Importance of Memories http://book.co.za/P05B #dowling #jowell #
• Charles Leonard resenseer Native Nostalgia deur Jacob Dlamini http://book.co.za/vnl1 #
• NLNG Prize and the Association of Nigerian Authors Face Off; Nothing Happens http://book.co.za/uYmQ #
• RT @liliradloff Vida dink hy's cooler as Ecco. <- Ha ha http://bit.ly/8nko7n Jy's 'n decaf latte, ek's 'n sterk macchiato #
• RT @RandomStruik Antjie Krog's Keynote Address at Winternachten: the Universal Declaration of Interconnectedness http://book.co.za/SzFV #
• Peter Sullivan Reviews Summertime by JM Coetzee http://book.co.za/CZ5z #
• RT @TraceyUdas: Google Buzz Versus Google Wave http://ow.ly/16nT6 via @pcworld <- I prefer Wave #
• Now on BOOK SA: @modjaji_bks on Moele, Kriel and Eick http://book.co.za/1oqB; and @LouisGreenberg's Home Away cover http://book.co.za/YBxp #
• Via @SAPartridge a PREVIEW of the cover for the Home Away collection of stories edited by @LouisGreenberg: http://bit.ly/bW70Hq #
• Anthony Stidolph Reviews Blood Lily by Mason Cranswick http://book.co.za/npWN #
• Gus Ferguson and Finuala Dowling to read at Folio Books on the 19th: http://book.co.za/1Qu0 #
• News: Gothenburg Book Fair Chooses Africa as its 2010 Focus http://book.co.za/P9zN #
• @KathrynWhite_za @Sapartridge Sorry, Michael who? in reply to KathrynWhite_za #
• @Sapartridge Ah, right, thanks. in reply to Sapartridge #
• @Sapartridge 'Block' – ? #
• Note to journalists who use Gmail: Google Buzz can potentially compromise your anonymous sourcing: http://bit.ly/akIxGf #privacy #
• More from the @guardian on Mandela: Winnie gives an interview (incl podcast): http://bit.ly/aQJ7a0 #
• Amy Winehouse sings "Free Nelson Mandela" (YouTube): http://bit.ly/9unioJ #
• Nelson Mandela, Free for 20 Years: Read Excerpts from Long Walk to Freedom http://book.co.za/laft #
• Justice Malala, 19 when Mandela was released, writes about Madiba's celebration vs Zuma's ignominy in the @guardian: http://bit.ly/drM7qK #
• Literature from Sierra Leone: "Weh Dehn Say? Dehn Say Kapu Sehns Nor Kapu Word" is reviewed in Cocorioko http://bit.ly/d3fmGE #
• Via @UrbanRenewal: celebrating Mandela's release, the "Free at Last" Film Festival: http://bit.ly/9ItlFl #
• Notes on Madiba: Khaya Dlanga Rounds Up the Reminiscences http://book.co.za/e6D3 #
• Novelist Shaun Johnson on Mandela's Unexpected Influence on His Life http://book.co.za/5aa0 #
• RT @modjaji_bks Colleen's giving a talk about getting your poems/poetry published. Cape Town City Library. Sat 13th Feb. 2pm to 4pm. #
• Sheridan Griswold Reviews The Impostor by Damon Galgut http://book.co.za/lLVM #stick #
• Ok, who wants to start a band w/me called "Die Vra" that charts the bourgeois SA soulscape with phrases like "Woolies free range chicken" ? #
• Manuela Lovisa resenseer Black Diamond deur Zakes Mda http://book.co.za/bkfT #
• #lbf10 The AUS$110 000 literary award has been CANCELLED, reports @LondonBookFair: http://bit.ly/dmLeOm #
• The Foxit eSlick eBooks Reader is in South Africa and Ready for Delivery by Valentine's Day http://book.co.za/gQmL #
• @victordlamini @kojobaffoe @Citizen_Caine @JhbCultureClub Tks for the We Write What We Like RTs http://book.co.za/mLWQ in reply to victordlamini #
• @Sapartridge You could always stay at home and listen to the new Die Antwoord track http://goo.gl/fb/mYZR (Caution: do not open) in reply to Sapartridge #
• Via @Litblog, the Book Fox is disenchanted with book reviews: http://bit.ly/amZr3P #
• According to the People's Post, the Infecting the City's CBD bull slaughtering is off the cards: http://bit.ly/b2DdNf #
• Book Excerpt: Killer Country by Mike Nicol http://book.co.za/kr2V #
• RT @ RandomStruik Get Stuck into Evita's Kossie Sikelela http://book.co.za/hkSG <- Includes a poster… and a preface by Sophie Loren! #
• RT @Anatinus Shocking! AWB admits Saddam payments: http://tinyurl.com/y85gogj <- AWB meaning Aussie Wheat Board, not the Terreblanchers #
• Etienne Britz resenseer As almal ver is: Suid-Afrikaners skryf huis toe saamgestel deur Danie Marais http://book.co.za/Hva7 #
• Invitation to We Write What We Like, a Publishing Seminar and Workshop in Johannesburg http://book.co.za/mLWQ #
• The Press Ombudsman of the @MailandGuardian Questions Fifa's Media Regulations http://bit.ly/bwOntD #
• The Launch of Looking Inside: Five South African stories of people living with Albinism at The Book Lounge http://book.co.za/Gb09 #
• News from Cuba: Gordimer calls for an end to the US blockade: http://bit.ly/9g0lSZ #
• See the @modjaji_bks launch coverage for Hester se brood: http://book.co.za/8Oki #afrikaans #cookbooks #bread #
• Valentine's day reminder from the Book Lounge: http://bit.ly/drHr48 #
• Via @TheCallsheetSA – Morgan Freeman wanted a Best Pic Oscar shout for Invictus: http://bit.ly/9bkh2l #
• John Crace looks into a couple of literary hoaxes: http://bit.ly/bZEHFI #
• Nice piece from @NicDawes on minister Cwele and "brazening it out" http://bit.ly/d5MVCE #
• RT @JonathanBallPub Fiona Snyckers is Back with the Sequel to Trinity Rising, Trinity On Air http://book.co.za/OZcy #
• Michiel Heyns Reviews House of War by Hamilton Wende http://book.co.za/JHDi #
• Who agrees that Google #Buzz is "late, boring and lame"? Late – check. Boring – check. Lame – not quite, but close. Google, whither yr mojo? #
• @brodiegal I'm told that http://wantitall.co.za can get "overseas" music for SAfricans. Have never tried it myself though. in reply to brodiegal #
• A *real* personal letter from JD Salinger to blogger Taki Theodoracopulos? Pretty salacious stuff, too: http://bit.ly/cscZES #
• Haiti by the numbers, courtesy http://counterpunch.org: http://bit.ly/brH6Zx #
• @KevinBloom sends birthday greetings to JM Coetzee: http://bit.ly/b0liu0 #
• @USEmbPretoria Hello! How's the weather down there in Westlake? in reply to USEmbPretoria #
• A coffee filter! A coffee filter! My kingdom for a coffee filter! #
• @USEmbPretoria Anne Perkins Reviews SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa Edited by Sokari Ekine http://book.co.za/rdtO < Poss of interest in reply to USEmbPretoria #
• More support for my contention that Facebook is becoming the internet; it's whacking Google News: http://bit.ly/dtuZMT #
• Adrian Ashley Reviews The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini http://book.co.za/ZAfl #stick #
• Riana Scheepers resenseer In die Nimmer-Immer Bos http://book.co.za/yytj #
• India lose by 6 runs…. and an INNINGS. RT @KevinMcCallum @OfficialCSA 10 WICKETS FOR DALE "THE STEYN REMOVER" #
• @KevinMcCallum From http://www.cricinfo.com – In the last 25 years India have suffered innings defeat only thrice at home, all to SA in reply to KevinMcCallum #
• @KevinMcCallum Yesss!! Steyn to Mishra, OUT, Clatter! Mishra's stumps are in disarray as Steyn completes the ten-for with an incoming cutter in reply to KevinMcCallum #
• @KevinMcCallum It's 20/20 cricket time. Duminy goes for 13 off the 100th over. in reply to KevinMcCallum #
• @KevinMcCallum India 292/7, 33 runs behind in reply to KevinMcCallum #
• RT @LondonBookFair Podcast with Jonathan Nowell, President of Nielsen Book http://tinyurl.com/ycnj4uy #LBF10 #
• @KevinMcCallum India 278/7 (trail by 47 runs) Saha 16 Khan 13, run rate 3.60, 19 overs left. in reply to KevinMcCallum #
• 2010's Reading Race Champion Leafs Through 158 Books http://book.co.za/puQ0 #
• @Sapartridge Nice one, tks. in reply to Sapartridge #
• @Sapartridge Don't know that fella! in reply to Sapartridge #
• @Sapartridge @LaurenBeukes Yippee. Didn't know the bg (missed the Antwoord wave) but saw one video a while back and thought – "never"! in reply to Sapartridge #
• @Sapartridge Ja, but surely they're fake? They must be fake. I know everyone says they're not fake, and yet, O the suspicion! in reply to Sapartridge #
• Die Antwoord, the Afrikaans rap trio, were featured on the FRONT PAGE of the NY Times' arts section yesterday: http://bit.ly/byFouZ #
• @KevinMcCallum interviews Dale Steyn about his streak of destruction in India: http://bit.ly/915M0q #
• Well, this should be tweeted. Today is "90210" day. (9th Feb 10 etc). Old 90210: http://bit.ly/7Wt4E New 90210: http://bit.ly/bLDRL0 #
• @KathrynWhite_za You're quite right. No comparison btw Gladwell and de Botton (except – latter's better w/book titles). in reply to KathrynWhite_za #
• Meanwhile, the Proteas remain rampant. RT @CarlyW226: Wow, Harris strikes again! MS Dhoni departs, caught by AB. India are 209-6. #
• @KathrynWhite_za You've been reading Malcolm Gladwell, haven't you! in reply to KathrynWhite_za #
• Scrap VAT on books thunders the DA: http://bit.ly/b95Xkj #
• Nadine Gordimer is headed to the Havana International Book Fair: http://bit.ly/aId1Eg #
• Like the @Guardian, the @FT doesn't like Invictus either ("a pious, bromidic, wet-all-over film…"): http://bit.ly/ay9Tmy #
• 7 reasons to love self-publishing: http://bit.ly/adJ3YJ #
• Percy Zvomuya Reviews The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe http://book.co.za/6vXe #
• Veels Geluk JM Coetzee! http://book.co.za/xWXP #
• On the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, BOOK SA Recommends JM Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg http://book.co.za/EcAL #
• Holy cow! Just noticed that BOOK SA's Google PageRank has been boosted to 6/10! Must've happened this week. Now that's progress. #
• Have been looking all day for a means of linking the Super Bowl and the lit arts. Thank you, Adam Gopnik: http://bit.ly/bbXJEG #
• (OR: you could cut it out of paper, instead of pape.) #
• @Mashable via Google's Fastflip: Don't have the dosh for a real iPad? Cut one out of pape: http://bit.ly/brAOq4 #
• Via @UrbanRenewal, London's School of Life offers "bibliotherapy" to cure writer's block: http://bit.ly/cbe7Cm #
• Two upcoming WISER events, CUNY's Ida Susser on the 9th and UC Irvine's Ackbar Abbass on the 11th, all welcome: http://bit.ly/c1luHI #
• Via @GuardianBooks, Neil Gaiman is to write an episode of Dr Who: http://bit.ly/an6nQF #
• RT @JacquesR: #brandplus to http://www.booklounge.co.za/ 4 follow-up call just after enquiring about a book #
• RT @electricbook Wd love to see someone brave enough to sell ebooks this way: "Buy Now, Pay Later" NYT: http://ow.ly/14ZdO #
• RT @NBPublishers Listen to Koos Kombuis' New Green "Fokkol" Song http://book.co.za/qzk2 #
• Some fab stuff on BOOK SA right now: Sam Wilson's "The Wolf Who Cried Boy", Joanne Hichens' "From the Hip", birdwatching, bookbuying & more #
• Leon Rousseau Resenseer Spreekwoorde En Waar Hulle Vandaan Kom deur Anton Prinsloo http://book.co.za/mmQi #
• Video: Check out @GenreStories "The Wolf Who Cried Boy": http://bit.ly/9YTMku #
• Maskew Miller Longman Youth Novel Competition Update: Workshop Dates Released http://book.co.za/BQoO #
• Video: Watch a Promotion for One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories http://book.co.za/cqO6 #
• Terrific, moving story on Botswana-based "Medu", a collective for SA artists in exile during apartheid: http://bit.ly/96Ww0I #
• Jonny Steinberg Reviews Native Nostalgia by Jacob Dlamini http://book.co.za/ARtd #carrot #readsa #
• Good morning all. So, who stayed up with me till 5am to watch the New Orleans Saints win the American football superbowl? Whattagame! #

• We stick w/the theme of deceased writers and their commemoration for the alt Sunday read; meet Langston Hughes’… http://bit.ly/9xnZkh #
• Sunday Read: Life with My Father, JD Salinger, by Margaret A Salinger http://book.co.za/YNbX #
• Test Flickr http://book.co.za/BVBP #
• Nigel Beale Reviews Summertime by JM Coetzee http://book.co.za/wtQ3 #
• Michael Chapman’s Introduction to Current Writing: “Conjectures on South African Literature” http://book.co.za/o1zB #
• Ruth Padel, Prof of Poetry at Oxford for 9 days, on the worst mistake of her life – and her new novel: http://bit.ly/crYAMS #
• Ann Donald’s Right Hemisphere http://book.co.za/F3Gr #
• André Wessels Resenseer Mounting Queen Victoria: Curating Culture Change deur Steven Dubin http://book.co.za/7YmM #
• Via @TheCallSheetSA – District 9 up for 7 BAFTAs http://bit.ly/d59X4k #
• Now on BOOK SA: @LaurenBeukes’ terrific comments on the iPad, Amazon’s ebook pricing and more: http://book.co.za/8Ghw (scroll down) #
• Two Carrots, One Stick For Some “Hot” SA Non-fiction http://book.co.za/w9OT #
• Report from Jaipur Litfest: The Story of Wole Soyinka’s Nobel http://book.co.za/tFr8 #
• #poetry #haiku Don’t just tweet important news (like your resignation as CEO of Sun Micro), twaiku it: http://bit.ly/bStaFu #
• The Guardian doesn’t like Invictus: http://bit.ly/cTJiGM #
• Moira Lovell Reviews Holding Pattern by Gus Ferguson http://book.co.za/r7mM #
• Time to check out the @Guardian’s new “Zeitgeist” news trend app: http://bit.ly/bSNyHz #
• Now on BOOK SA: @SAPartridge writes on creating characters in fiction http://book.co.za/Aosy #
• A (Virtual) Look At The iPad http://book.co.za/8Ghw #
• @belfastangel Thanks for the info. DM me if you need an email address. in reply to belfastangel #
• @Tendaijoe Have you got a link re: the BBC deal? Would love to help trumpet it… Thanks! #
• @belfastangel Thanks for the lead. Do you have any further info? in reply to belfastangel #
• Now on BOOK SA: The actor who will play Spud in John van de Ruit’s Spud the Movie revealed! http://book.co.za/7Qbs #
• Now on BOOK SA: Natalia Molebatsi books Dennis Brutus (RIP) for MUSE: http://book.co.za/kh6K #
• @laurenbeukes Feeling hopelessly inadequate. Haven’t even hit 4500 yet. in reply to laurenbeukes #
• @laurenbeukes Goodness, 13 000 tweets! That’s… that’s… that leaves me lost for words, actually. And I thought I was busy on Twitter in reply to laurenbeukes #
• Anyone else out there seen Google’s “Social Circle” yet? It’s started showing in my search results: http://bit.ly/asd3vj #
• Patrick Coyne’s “A Guide to South Africa’s Mountain Passes and Poorts” is being launched in Durban on 18 Feb: http://bit.ly/buEOTK #
• Theo Kleynhans resenseer South African Art Now deur Sue Williamson http://book.co.za/QClr #
• China-based SA author Rod Mackenzie’s new book, “Cracking China” is now available here: http://bit.ly/9OgknY #
• Now on BOOK SA: Read about the Infecting the City Festival, 13 – 20 Feb in Cape Town: http://book.co.za/yC2b #
• The Third Annual Baobab Prize Now Accepting Submissions http://book.co.za/Ao9W #
• Nalini Naidoo Reviews Inside Quatro: Uncovering the Exile History of the ANC and SWAPO by Paul Trewhela http://book.co.za/mMLl #
• Now on BOOK SA: News that Fiona Snyckers’ “Trinity Rising” has gone into reprint! Congrats to her – http://book.co.za/FC8B #
• On BOOK SA: for an alt take on the “FW frees Mandela” narrative, see A. Kaganof’s notice of a soon-to-be-aired film: http://book.co.za/1ON7 #
• Now on BOOK SA: @ByronLoker has a tip on what to look for in Granta.com > http://book.co.za/CIQQ #
• MC Botha vaar uit teen André Brink se ontvangs van die Jan Rabie/Marjorie Wallace-beurs http://book.co.za/kYb5 #
• Daniel Hugo resenseer Versamelde Boesmanstories deur GR von Wilelligh http://book.co.za/qdBi #wortel #
• RT @arthurattwell HysTERical “Neutra Face: An Ode On A Typeface” YouTube: http://bit.ly/5MtlKT <- “Even if it’s bold italic” #
• Book Excerpt: Sunnyside Sal by Anton Krueger http://book.co.za/XhNv #
• Mousehand Book Fair at The Blue Cat Cafe http://book.co.za/y0fW #
• Catherine Neilan Profiles Deon Meyer Ahead of His Trip to the London Book Fair http://book.co.za/BMAL #
• Enter the Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award, now in its third year. Deadline is 7 Feb: http://bit.ly/9yHHSp #
• RT @JacanaMedia Poetry Alert! Call for Submissions for the Inaugural Sol Plaatje Award for Poetry http://book.co.za/9Drl <- Deadline 1 Mar #
• The final print issue of Something Wicked horror magazine is available from today: http://bit.ly/aGmaVl #
• The Time of the Writer schools short story competition is on: http://book.co.za/nghu #
• @urbanrenewal That is hilarious mate. in reply to urbanrenewal #
• @brodiegal Any link for that GQ story? in reply to brodiegal #
• Link love: Paper Bag Publishing: http://book.co.za/DyrD #
• Kaiama Glover of the New York Times Reviews The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe http://book.co.za/eSAm #
• Poet Boadiba’s Haiti Earthquake Diary: http://bit.ly/d0iDUL #
• Twitter is reporting that District9 is an Oscar nominee for best picture! http://bit.ly/bPwvvE #
• Wow, the JD Salinger of cartooning, Bill “Calvin and Hobbes” Watterson, gives 1st interview in 21 years: http://bit.ly/br6BuA #
• @laurenbeukes Twitter users in SA: 500k. FB users in SA: 4.2 mil. Twitter is my fave by far, but can’t compete w/FB’s reach. So need both. in reply to laurenbeukes #
• Now on BOOK SA: Helen Moffett remembers the 2nd of February 1990 http://book.co.za/SMN1 #mandela #deklerk #
• WISER and JWTC invite you to a public lecture: Saree Makdisi of UCLA on ‘Overcoming Apartheid in Palestine’: http://bit.ly/co9a00 #
• * BNW = Brave New World, as in, Facebook may displace Google as “the internet” sooner than we think (@laurenbeukes) #
• @laurenbeukes It’s a BNW*, requiring us to play around w/Facebook and other services. Sorry you can’t access FB; there’s always mobile in reply to laurenbeukes #
• Centre for Humanities Research announces upcoming seminars and lectures: http://bit.ly/9oYE0r #
• RT @LondonBookFair Banned Chinese books displayed in Taipei: http://bit.ly/aPs0kX #LBF10 #
• Listen to a Preview of Gil Scott Heron’s New Album, I’m New Here http://book.co.za/dlIg #
• Stoffel Cilliers Resenseer Louoond deur Jeanne Goosen http://book.co.za/uhuV #
• OK, enough about FW. Via @GuardianBooks: Gil Scott Heron has a comeback record! http://bit.ly/9E4rNQ #
• Here’s the full FW de Klerk speech itself http://bit.ly/bAwEba #
• Marianne Thamm on the Soon-to-be-Opened Fugard Theatre http://book.co.za/vR77 #
• More on FW de Klerk’s historic speech – Tony Weaver remembers covering it: http://bit.ly/b1XkiD #
• FW de Klerk Remembers His Historic “Free Mandela” Speech http://book.co.za/3Ber #
• Liesl Jobson’s story on the launch of M Gastrow’s The Road to Absalom went up a bit late yesterday; take a look: http://book.co.za/l48C #
• Jase Luttrell Reviews Neighbours: The story of a murder by Lília Momplé http://book.co.za/oJPQ #
• Woke up, no internet. An hour later, still no internet. #cybersmart fail. #
• RT @HuffPostTech WATCH: Stephen Colbert Shows Off His iPad At The Grammys http://bit.ly/aLP6fC <- Short clip, worth the bandwidth #
• More Soyinka: he traces global Islamic terrorism back to the Ayatollah’s fatwa against Rushdhi (via @blacklooks): http://bit.ly/ahJZu7 #
• @mandyjwatson Wow, that’s quite a #darksiders #fail you got there. in reply to mandyjwatson #
• Topic: It’s been a moer of a Monday. Discuss. #
• The Road to Absalom Launched in Cape Town http://book.co.za/l48C #
• I posted 38 photos on Facebook in the album “The Road to Absolom – Book Launch” http://bit.ly/bYiPuB #
• Louise Viljoen Resenseer Oogensiklopedie deur Gilbert Gibson http://book.co.za/QqDt #
• @laurenbeukes PS: http://www.flickr.com/photos/booksa/4322149968/ in reply to laurenbeukes #
• @laurenbeukes Just doing a few experiments here. Most who have FB blocked also have Flickr blocked, I’ve found in reply to laurenbeukes #
• Book Launch: Glaskastele / Skylight of the Heart by Lucille Greeff http://book.co.za/tlpt #
• Wole Soyinka’s Derek Walcott Lecture http://book.co.za/KLED #
• Stoffel Cilliers Resenseer Troos vir die gebrokenes deur Bettina Wyngaard http://book.co.za/qXa7 #
• Alert to those who had trouble accessing http://book.co.za – IPs beginning w/ 41 are now working again. Full story: http://bit.ly/ag72bJ #
• True Love Editor Dorah Sitole to Start Romance Series at Thought24’s New Book Division http://book.co.za/IFOS #
• Now on BOOK SA: notice of the latest Kontax story by @GenreStories http://book.co.za/0rJr #
• Also: the @MailandGuardian’s Shaun de Waal has a new book of short fiction out called “Exposure” http://bit.ly/a3pPKC #
• News of a new title from Robin Malan’s Junket Press: “Yes I Am! writing by South African Gay Men”, to be published… http://bit.ly/cI6NWw #
• RT @Anatinus Shocking Sony Wielie Walie scandal: http://bit.ly/bb7xh7 <- I’ll RT anything that has “Bennie Bookworm” in it #
• Book Launch: 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life by Cami Walker http://book.co.za/LN7H #
• Of interest: 22 books not eligible in 1970 for the Booker Prize are getting a second chance to win it: http://bit.ly/aYueP9 #
• Hm, let’s try an experiment. Here’s a BOOK SA link proxied via Facebook: http://bit.ly/aiJFzK #
• To reiterate what I tweeted earlier, if you’re having trouble accessing http://book.co.za, follow these steps: http://bit.ly/a9Bb7p #
• Amis vs Coetzee: Tymon Smith Follows Up http://book.co.za/g8nv #
• Chris Dustors Reviews Work in Progress and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2009 http://book.co.za/MhwG #
• … record the IP no. there & tweet us with it. We’ll add it to the list for fixing. Meanwhile, view the site at http://freeproxyserver.net #
• Since Sat, we’ve had an issue w/Vodacom-assigned IPs starting w/41. If you can’t read http://book.co.za, goto http://whatismyip.com (cont) #
• Just saw the HuffPo’s “9 worst things about the iPad” and find them convincing (apart from no 1). The pendulum swings: http://bit.ly/bVH5Ex #
• http://facebook.com/booksa http://bit.ly/auboFW #
• http://facebook.com/booksa http://bit.ly/aLIOix #

• Alt Sunday read is “Off to the Pigeon Races” in the Whitman & Hanson Express. Just because. http://bit.ly/aNHonE #
• Sunday Read: Playwrights on Writing http://book.co.za/Q3sK #
• The Unpublished Manuscripts of J.D. Salinger (R.I.P) http://book.co.za/oHmq #
• McCall Smith’s Online Novel: The Dog Who Came In From The Cold http://book.co.za/Ha32 #
• Nalini Naidoo Reviews Running with Horses by Allan Boesak http://book.co.za/WMlz #
• Belinda Bauer’s Here with Blacklands http://book.co.za/QVqw #
• Hermann Giliomee resenseer First Drafts deur Allister Sparks http://book.co.za/Glva #
• Ann Donald on Reading and Re-Reading http://book.co.za/oHat #
• Next, Twitter and PR. #iPad looks good, but I doubt Jobs & Co expected #iTampon to trend so ferociously. Apple’s 1st Twitter #fail? #
• 2010 Short Story Contest from the SA Writers’ College is Open http://book.co.za/rQm7 #
• Now to books and development: read more on Equal Education’s “one school, one library, one librarian” campaign: http://bit.ly/dmTE4J #
• Sticking w/sport, who else saw the story about SA writer Myan Subrayan’s bio of NZ rugby start Inga Tuigamala? http://bit.ly/dvJBlB #
• Nothing to do w/books, but still, but still: Carlos Amato on the appalling state of #Afcon soccer. Shd be called… http://bit.ly/9nV6cQ #
• Tim Couzens Explores Ireland http://book.co.za/uMKk #
• Katherine Chen Reviews Boyhood by J.M. Coetzee http://book.co.za/ATc2 #
• @ByronLoker scoops BOOK SA: Read a quick note on Anthony Doerr’s new sci-fi short story in McSweeney’s: http://book.co.za/V4Fh #
• This Tuesday: Boekehuis invites you toa talk with Mbali Creazzo, healer and inspiration for the book 29 Gifts: http://bit.ly/aCvoee #
• RT @ParisReview Giroux on Salinger, Catcher http://3.ly.jdsal #rip He was 91 #
• Michael Olivier Matches Wine to Book http://book.co.za/uVh4 #
• The Book Lounge writes in with news of the launch of 3 urban books at the Cape Institute for Architecture on 3 Feb: http://bit.ly/9sF9Yv #
• Fairlady Features Modjaji Poetry Trio: Magona, Moffett, Zerbst http://book.co.za/jPhz #
• Five-Thousand-Year-Old Mystery Revealed in The Secret of the Sacred Scarab http://book.co.za/sBbc #
• Gareth Smith Reviews Africa Lens edited by Justin Fox http://book.co.za/QruG #
• According to Reuters, Amazon will soon allow syncing between the Kindle and iPad. For me, hat ensures the former’s… http://bit.ly/dalg9r #
• Anonymous Reviews the Aya Cartoon Series by Marguerite Abouet http://book.co.za/y1Zx #
• Interview: Tara June Winch on Her Mentor, Wole Soyinka http://book.co.za/rhIp #
• Grace Kim Reviews Strange Fruit by Helen Moffett http://book.co.za/R8KM #
• @brodiegal I thought long and hard about that. Ultimately went for singular, because I wd say “iTunes is neat” etc. in reply to brodiegal #
• Apple’s “iPad” Tablet Computer: iBooks is Here http://book.co.za/tfnC #
• A Pair of Carrots for The Origins of Non-racialism by David Everatt http://book.co.za/wJFN #
• Excerpt and Photographs from A Letter from Paris by Eric Miyeni http://book.co.za/6tMP #
• Karen Ebersohn resenseer My ouma in kaneel deur Margaret Bakkes http://book.co.za/WF9p #
• Martin Amis Says “Coetzee’s Got No Talent” http://book.co.za/W3FY #
• Ceridwen Dovey Does Wine Farm Work http://book.co.za/tNny #
• Christopher Merrett Reviews The Democratic Moment by Xolela Mangcu http://book.co.za/SvGK #
• RT @guardianbooks Tóibín runaway favourite for Costa book of the year http://bit.ly/8rrqUE #
• Henrietta Rose-Innes makes the Willesden Herald short story competition shortlist: http://book.co.za/gJ0b #
• RT @Litblog: Judges named for £5,000 prize for unpublished authors http://bit.ly/4GWnUa (@tohellwithemma ) RT @boduweb #
• Buy, Buy, Buy at the Exclusive Books Summer Sale! http://book.co.za/CaFX #
• RT @victordlamini: please, call me not,
  a woman of colour
  call me, a black woman
  the name grounded in my experience
  : poem by Khosi Xaba #
• EB Summer Sale is here! http://flic.kr/p/7yxD2f #
• Joan Hambidge resenseer Oogensiklopedie deur Gilbert Gibson http://book.co.za/8Hlj #
• Kaartjies nou beskikbaar vir die Stellenbosse Woorfees 2010 http://book.co.za/SG96 #
• RT @mandyjwatson: SA is 6th largest user of Opera Mini: http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2010/01/26/ #
• RT @JonathanBallPub: Anthony Altbeker’s New Work on the Inge Lotz Trial, Fruit of a Poisoned Tree http://book.co.za/6pi5 #
• RT @DavidKrut William Kentridge’s Profile in The New Yorker: A Taste http://book.co.za/hMoC #
• RT @JacanaMedia: Black Bull, Ancestors and Me Honoured at the 2010 Stonewall Book Awards http://book.co.za/C4dM @blacklooks #
• Good piece by Sean O’Toole on Kroonstad’s rebel photographer, Sam Haskins (d. 2009 in Australia): http://bit.ly/92I2wp #
• Karina Magdalena Szcurek Reviews My Brother’s Keeper by Jassy Mackenzie http://book.co.za/kqdA #
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Chinua Achebe in Salon.com http://book.co.za/RoKC #
• Dash Snow has a book of photographs out (posthumously, of course): http://bit.ly/4Nofh9 #
• RT @ChrisRoperZA: My response to letter of complaint from SA Human Rights Commission. http://bit.ly/6JU6Dh <- Interesting click #
• RT @LondonBookFair: Book sales soar in India http://bit.ly/7J8ns5 #LBF10 #
• Kenneth Chikanga Reviews We are All Zimbabweans Now by James Kilgore http://book.co.za/VEBd #stick #
• Podcast and Feature: Annica Foxcroft in the Sunday Times http://book.co.za/hVno #
• Thabo Mbeki writes for the Sunday Times on Haiti: http://bit.ly/5WigQx #
• UCT’s 2010 Sax Appeal contributors are in: @BenTrovato, Rotherham, Clarke, Clemence, Benatar and Cliff, inter alia: http://bit.ly/5smbfO #
• RT @RandomStruik: Sihle Khumalo Tries Out ReaVaya, Joburg’s New Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System http://book.co.za/WxMR #
• Free Joburg Spoken Word Memorial for Dennis Brutus at the Bassline http://book.co.za/oY95 #
• RT @NBPublishers: Charl-Pierre Naudé gesels met Breyten Breytenbach oor die Max Jacob-prys en meer http://book.co.za/0oAF #
• Mbulelo Mzamane’s tribute to Sipho Sepamla (1932-2007) has resurfaced on the web. Here’s the best link: http://bit.ly/6ijHBz #
• Kevin Ritchie Reviews First Drafts: South African History in the Making by Allister Sparks http://book.co.za/YWbu #
• Love to hate Amway? Join the crowd on Ingrid Wolfaardt’s recent post http://bit.ly/6K31w3 (scroll down for comments) #
• Adam Habib and Tariq Ramadan are finally allowed back into the US, courtesy a signed Hillary Clinton exemption: http://bit.ly/8SpUTm #
• Joan Hambidge resenseer Kooi deur Albert Schaffer http://book.co.za/sfLB #
• Tech and books: Kate Sidley looks at the Kindle http://bit.ly/5vadUu and Daniel Akst speculates about the Apple tablet: http://bit.ly/7GJggT #
• Via @TymonSmith: James Patterson published 9 hardcover novels in 2009, and will publish 9 this year: http://bit.ly/7xZWCw #
• RT @PenguinbooksSA: Extract from Chinua Achebe’s New Book: “What Nigeria Means to Me” http://book.co.za/Gbe3 #
• That should be “skatebike”. Sorry! @RichardeNooy #
• Now on BOOK SA: @RicharddeNooy’s “skatebite” review of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart http://book.co.za/JHaL #
• #homophobia For those following the Qwelane/Uganda story this M&G article by Ilham Rawoot has 96 comments and counting: http://bit.ly/6ZmIgU #
• Christopher Hope and Margaret von Klemperer Review Kings of the Water by Mark Behr http://book.co.za/KnvC #carrots #
• David Coetzee, Activist, Publisher and Brother of JM Coetzee, Dies in the USA http://book.co.za/1JmZ #
• RT @CrimeBeat: Schlock horror – part 5 http://book.co.za/XLrJ #
• 2 stories, 2 papers, one weekend. A second short by Julian Barnes, this time in @TimesOnline. Read “Complicity”: http://bit.ly/5HekKB #
• Ok, scratch that, Roddick’s dominating the 5th. 4th was a cracker. @KevinMcCallum @CarlyW226 #
• @KevinMcCallum @CarlyW226 Amazing action at Aussie Open – Roddick vs Gonzalez in 5th set – radio livestreaming: http://bit.ly/3hi22S #

• Alt Sunday Read is “Sleeping with John Updike”, a new short story by Julian Barnes: http://bit.ly/4OcuG4 #
• Sunday Read: The Wartime Letters of Iris Murdoch http://book.co.za/3WBW #
• @CarlyW226 Exactly. in reply to CarlyW226 #
• Here’s your writers’ weekend weather forecast, for Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban: http://bit.ly/4VVghF #
• Ann Donald on the Appeal of New Years Mumbo-Jumbo http://book.co.za/JMSl #
• Granta Magazine Interviews Ngugi wa Thiong’o http://book.co.za/GTTv #
• Via @ElectricBook: Designing for digital: What print-book designers should know about ebooks (sample): http://bit.ly/7ckCOv #
• Sunday Times Recommends: The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga and Voodoo Histories by David Aaronovitch http://book.co.za/g4VD #
• The new #fail site that everyone’s talking about! Ok, not really, but it is funny: http://failbooking.com/ #
• @Imagine_This I certainly will be! See you there? in reply to Imagine_This #
• Came across 3 2009 Petina Gappah videos – 2 readings & an interview w/the BBC: http://bit.ly/6MWkmk #
• Book Launch: The Road to Absalom by Michael Gastrow http://book.co.za/UQMd #
• @PortfolioLifeco Aw shucks Thanks! in reply to PortfolioLifeco #
• PASA Appoints Brian Wafawarowa as its New Executive Director http://book.co.za/7veF #
• RT @laurenbeukes: Found amazing flickr set of abandoned places in SA by @mallix http://bit.ly/j4TGm #
• Desmond Painter resenseer Die tyd van die kombi’s deur Koos Kombuis http://book.co.za/3lOs #
• Carol Brammage Reviews Donkey Crossings: A Wild and Desperate Journey Down the Transkei Coast by Kim McGowan http://book.co.za/0gft #stick #
• Special Travel-stroke-Crime Writing Report: Andrew Salomon Meets Colin Cotterill http://book.co.za/uqZ3 #
• RT @CrimeBeat: Schlock horror – part 4 http://book.co.za/cbry #
• “Humans are simply too stupid to [recognise sarcasm]“. Hence the indispensable SarcMark emoticon: http://bit.ly/6bvdBw #
• @urbanrenewal Btw, haven’t seen the pro site before, only Urban Renewal. Like it. in reply to urbanrenewal #
• @urbanrenewal Baie dankie. in reply to urbanrenewal #
• @Imagine_This A writers workshop in Uganda? Splendid! in reply to Imagine_This #
• @urbanrenewal Sent you a note via http://www.justinslack.com/ – noticed that the email form there won’t send unless there are no ” ‘ “s. in reply to urbanrenewal #
• @Joethepublicist Damn right, it’s better than yours. I could teach you, but I’d have to charge. http://bit.ly/6cvD7u in reply to Joethepublicist #
• Call for submissions to the autumn edition of Incwadi: http://bit.ly/4Zmhii #
• @KevBloom Fantastic news mate. Well done. in reply to KevBloom #
• Andie Miller Reviews Begging to be Black by Antjie Krog http://book.co.za/zucw #carrot #
• Via @Litblog: Ali Alizadeh: On Contemporary Poetry in Iran #salt: http://bit.ly/8eHKte #
• @Grondwerk slaps down conspiracy theories and the pathetic Hoffman #2010 scare article: http://book.co.za/auav (see comments) #
• On our front page, 3 features on the Eugene de Kock pardon: Zapiro, van der Westhuizen, Gobodo-Madikizela http://book.co.za #
• Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela: Pardon Eugene de Kock http://book.co.za/SYC9 #
• The Pan South African Language Board calls for entries for its 2010 multilingualism awards: http://bit.ly/7i8NrP #
• Kobus Moolman Reviews Romancing the Dead by Gary Cummiskey http://book.co.za/kFIz #poetry #carrot #
• EB.com’s new top 10 bestseller list: John Smit – http://bit.ly/8gadQ1 – and John Platter – http://bit.ly/8itgEf -… http://bit.ly/92M5gS #
• The English Academy invites entries for its 2010 Schreiner, Fitzpatrick and Pringle prizes: http://bit.ly/8ODYp7 #
• RT @JacanaMedia Video: Zapiro on His Latest “Lady Justice” Cartoon http://book.co.za/5jm9 #
• Ampie Coetzee resenseer Een hart deur Johannes Prins http://book.co.za/0Zo6 #
• District 9 up for 9 BAFTAs, appropriately enough, incl Director, Adapted Screenplay and Cinematography: http://bit.ly/92Au6j #
• @percyzvomuya Quite right! And on another subject altogether: Arsenal! in reply to percyzvomuya #
• At @CrimeBeat, people are loving the “Schlock, horror” series: http://book.co.za/CgWf – http://book.co.za/omIl – http://book.co.za/H6dB #
• Open Letter from Nigerian Writers Calls for Civil Uprising Against Absent Leadership (In All its Forms) http://book.co.za/WB9G #
• Two Carrots for Johnny Golightly Comes Home by Pat Hopkins http://book.co.za/GJmO #
• Kindle is trending on Twitter (http://bit.ly/7Evd2m). Why? Amazon has just launched an app store for it: http://bit.ly/6o2glz #
• US Govt launches “Pop culture vs Real America” site; first lessons are Baywatch and Grey’s Anatomy (via… http://bit.ly/6SIMGO #
• Ahem. *Clears throat.* ARSENAL ARE TOP OF THE LOG! *Tips hat, walks off with irritating spring in step.* #
• NOT BOOKS, but still very important. YouTube to stream the IPL! Bye-bye bandwidth: http://bit.ly/5Lbdmx #
• Raphael Mokoena Reviews Tebogo and the Pantophagist by Omoseye Bolaji http://book.co.za/5qHX #carrot #
• @liliradloff http://bit.ly/15CNSw – ? in reply to liliradloff #
• Book Excerpt: Christopher Hope’s Notes in From Joburg to Jozi http://book.co.za/vmIW #
• Billy Kahora and @KwaniOnline feature prominently in this big @CSMonitorOnline piece on Kenya’s lit scene’s revival: http://bit.ly/5252Ra #
• Stoffel Cilliers resenseer Die verhaal van Elandskloof deur Tobie Wiese http://book.co.za/gEdA #
• Score! @macyhalford mentions @electricbook in her New Yorker blog #ebooks #Africa: http://bit.ly/7GHqyE #
• Rene Brophy has been appointed Exclusive Books’ new marketing and publicity manager. Congrats to her! http://bit.ly/6QQKCz #
• I posted 2 photos on Facebook in the album “Rene Brophy” http://bit.ly/5arLYM #
• RT @dailymaverick: Chancellor House, the untouchables: http://bit.ly/7YeoR2 By Grootes and Cohen. Depressing. <- Yep. But an important piece #
• Amazon.com has started a bestseller list: http://bit.ly/70kGzq #
• A Tantalising Glimpse of a New Ceridwen Dovey Short Story, “Red Peter’s Little Lady” http://book.co.za/Z2tH #
• Media Watch: The Huffington Post Retracts Jeffrey Hoffman’s 2010 Disaster-Scenario Article http://book.co.za/auav #
• Two Reviews of Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe by Doreen Baingana http://book.co.za/7qLp #
• Via @LauriceTB: five new ways to market a book: http://bit.ly/5M33bf #
• RT @CrimeBeat: Schlock horror – part 2 http://book.co.za/omIl #
• RIP Erich Segal, author of “Love Story”: http://bit.ly/8ejMEI #
• @brodiegal 30% chance of rain means that there’s a 1-in-3 chance that you personally will experience rain. Nothing to do w/volume. in reply to brodiegal #
• @FerminaM Why, thank you! in reply to FerminaM #
• RT @parisreview L Joris in #Congo RT @krissimmons Quote from current @parisreview: “Those without children can at least leave words behind” #
• @brodiegal For Wed: 23 high 18 low, 30% rain In places, Gentle South Westerly at 7 knots http://bit.ly/7Sr7wT in reply to brodiegal #
• Digters, skrywers en Engafrikaans. Wat next vir ons taal? http://book.co.za/HkKU #
• Win tickets to the premier of the film “Skin” courtesy @TimesLive: http://bit.ly/7sGn8y #
• Should be an @Hayibo story but sadly not: gay-bashing Jon Qwelane is up for SA’s ambassador to anti-gay Uganda!? http://bit.ly/57PptX #
• More from @Guardian: Philip Gross wins the TS Eliot poetry prize for The Water Table: http://bit.ly/8GxSEL #
• Save the celebrity biography! (SA sure has plenty of ‘em.) Very funny piece by Tanya Gold in @Guardian: http://bit.ly/7Ryd1B #
• Jan-jan Joubert Resenseer Hani: A life too short deur Janet Smith en ander http://book.co.za/kZ8Y #wortel #
• Derek Walcott’s “My St Lucia”: http://bit.ly/7FAtAW #
• Forthcoming/Wow: TJ: The Various Names of Johannesburg and Double Negative by Goldblatt and Vladislavic http://book.co.za/ezCm #
• Call for Submissions: African Cities Reader II http://book.co.za/6OOb #
• Suit 101’s Top Ten Recent SA Novels http://book.co.za/NBie #
• Sipho Hlongwane Reviews More South African Insults by Sarah Britten http://book.co.za/Ctwy #
• @parisreview Ok, grudging (but halfhearted) reappraisal. “Language is a tool” probably should be banned, as a phrase, don’t you think? in reply to parisreview #
• @parisreview Ja, but, c’mon. Rhyming “life and love”? So corny it’s perverse. in reply to parisreview #
• Now on BOOK SA: @LouisGreenberg’s “good for a laugh if nothing else” correspondence with the National Arts Council: http://book.co.za/r0vd #
• RT @EHuge: In-flight internet on its way: http://bit.ly/7M6qna <- Used this in the US & it was brilliant #
• RT @PenguinbooksSA: Li Cunxin Visiting South Africa in February http://bit.ly/605OZt #MaosLastDancer #
• Molly McCloskey Reviews The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe http://book.co.za/hEqP #
• You might not agree w/Cory Doctorow on “piracy and the death of the book”, but you gotta love his email sig: http://bit.ly/7toP9X #
• @Anatinus Look us up in the Market Focus pavilion #LBF10 in reply to Anatinus #
• @GenreStories Hilarious! But: http://bit.ly/6uDo7Y in reply to GenreStories #
• How to get yourself banned from Doncaster airport for life: http://bit.ly/7mNn1D #
• Jaco Jacobs resenseer Saracen at the Gates deur Zinaid Meeran http://book.co.za/kCSE #wortel #
• #adderall US author Stephen Elliott on his 33-city DIY book tour: http://bit.ly/4YtJ8h #
• Charlie Brooker, currently my only must-read columnist, but not when I’m drinking milk or eating spaghetti: http://bit.ly/4QV1sq #
• Stephen Watson on His Love Affair with Walking the Cape Mountains http://book.co.za/Gs7M #
• RT @PenguinbooksSA: @KevinMcCallum on the Beauty of Test Cricket http://book.co.za/Ub0O #
• @KathrynWhite_za It’s the dreaded Dec-Jan “Accounts receivable dept is on leave” period in reply to KathrynWhite_za #
• Crime fiction lovers, don’t miss “Schlock, Horror”, a UCT Summer School course featuring top SA krimi writers: http://bit.ly/8V7nYO #
• Nelia Grobbelaar resenseer Op die toneel: stories, reise, stemme deur Dana Snyman http://book.co.za/phVg #wortel #
• For those with an interest in the Paris exhibition on Presence Africaine, here’s a review by David Tresilian: http://bit.ly/8Cqcfv #
• Terrific piece by @TimesLive’s Lin Sampson on one of the stars of The Silver Fez, “Hadji Bucks”: http://bit.ly/8XUoTv #
• RT @RandomStruik: Mike Nicol Returns with Payback Sequel, Killer Country http://book.co.za/b3m0 #
• Chris Dunton Reviews Shivas Dance by Elana Bregin http://book.co.za/AWPR #
• Video from Down Under: JM Coetzee Launches Patrick Allington’s Figurehead http://book.co.za/Sa5N #
• Haiti: Chinua Achebe Calls for South Africa, Nigeria to do More http://book.co.za/1rzO #
• “Afrikaners pretending to be French” and 49 other things that Lin Sampson doesn’t want to see in 2010: http://bit.ly/6FD3At #
• @TallStoriesBook Replied to you via email. Apologies for being so late. in reply to TallStoriesBook #
• @TheCallSheetSA ‘Rian Malan’ is credited with the screenplay for ‘The Silver Fez’. Same RM as the one who wrote ‘Resident Alien’? #
• Ah! It was Eusebius McKaiser, a gent w/plenty to say on the subj of SA Lit. A short story of his: http://bit.ly/4DYyZb (@KaraboKgoleng) #
• Good convo on SAfm Literature right now btw @KaraboKgoleng and… ? Karabo, pls say the name of yr guest more often! #