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: June 18, 2010
"Don't hold your breath for act three."
NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 10, 2009
"Intelligent, revealing and important."
A Pulitzer Prize–winning husband-and-wife reporter team track the growing movement to empower women in the developing world.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2006
"Though Juliet (The Cradle Robbers, 2005, etc.) is still adorable, Waldman has bouts of preachiness better suited to the op-ed page than a mystery."
NONFICTION
Released: May 16, 2006
"A vibrant discourse on satisfying hungers of every kind."
The globetrotting, guerrilla TV chef of ill repute serves up some journalistic odds and ends.
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