Ask a writer to send you 1,000 words and you might get 10,000. Some writers flourish with Twitter’s mandatory brevity, though, becoming epigrammatic, funny, brazen, trendsetting and friendly, plugging their colleagues’ work, for example, rather than solely their own. You can first admire the writers in this week’s list of top 10 practitioners of Twitterature via their books, and then online in 140 characters.
FICTION
Released: Jan. 29, 2013
"Quantum physics was never funnier. A great read."
In a whimsical twist on the
Back to the Future scenario, a bully returns to her high school days to right some wrongs.
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FICTION
Released: July 3, 2012
"Spares no bon mot in exposing Hollywood's sexism, ageism and incurable penchant for extravagant silliness."
FICTION
Released: March 20, 2012
"A proficient but routine thriller in which you can tell for miles in advance who's disposable and who's slated for survival, marked by the virtual absence of the baroque plot twists fans of Coben (Live Wire, 2011, etc.) expect as their due."
The past comes knocking for a former stripper who thought she'd said goodbye to all that in an altogether less-successful distaff reworking of The Innocent (2005).
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 18, 2011
"Wholly satisfying, with plenty of insights for Atwood and sci-fi fans alike."
A witty, astute collection of essays and lectures on science fiction by the acclaimed novelist.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 18, 2011
"The latest from a generation of literary novelists who are erasing the distinction between art and pulp."
NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 4, 2011
"Although occasionally excessive in its claims for the ultimate significance of it all, a terrific dog's tale that will make readers sit up and beg for more."
New Yorker staff writer Orlean (My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere, 2004, etc.) follows the long and curious trail of the celebrity dog born on a World War I battlefield.
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