Literary Twitterati: from The Goldfinch hotel to The Strand on a train

@Telegraph presumably thinks that The Great Gatsby is a great Dutch novel and Madame Bovary is a fine example of Australian prose fiction.

Sitting alongside literary greats Gone with the Wind & The Age of Innocence, The Goldfinch has won the Pulitzer Prize http://t.co/e3EqRGhlWy

I'm staying in the hotel in Amsterdam that begins THE GOLDFINCH! Treating all other guests with maximum suspicion

Bernard Avishai on the poet Yehuda Amichai's insight about Passover http://t.co/MdtzSNKeov

Donal Ryan and Catherine Dunne talk to Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin (video) for Six Minutes on Story https://t.co/C21hrgt9eZ

In honour of Seamus Heaney's birthday, poet Gerald Dawe reads 'The Strand' from #ifeveryougo on @1city1book train pic.twitter.com/mdGmu7RNFj

Grimm's fairy tales offer uniformly terrible marriage advice: 1. Endure supernatural hardship 2. Marry the person who rescues you

Sue Townsend, thanks for leaving us with all of your wonderful stories. RIP :(((

"That night me and Jen took a green Starlet out the Naas Road." Fantastic Flash Fiction by Nuala Ní Chonchúir: http://t.co/2rbzjNZOa5

Tweets collected by @pandapolitics