literary twitter feeds good and bad

Kinda like this one, even though it hasn't taken off:

https://twitter.com/GenjiMonoBot

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

— Jean Rhys (@MsJeanRhys) March 18, 2020

Use your intelligence, can’t you?

— Samuel Beckett (@samuelbbeckett) August 14, 2021

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— Sappho Bot (@sapphobot) August 14, 2021

(my love miltonbot has shut up shop for good i think, and all sanity departed the site with it)

s/b lovely, but why not declare my passion for all to know

joyce finnegans wake: much the best way to encounter this book

I have always remembered this opinion and, having spent many hours reading certain passages of FW with fanatical closeness, I admit that it has a kernel of truth.

yeats pizza topping tweet is still all time SITO

Paying my respects.

rereading "classics" of American literature & have to concede, much prose by truly great writers (Poe, Melville, James) is actually just awkward, inept, hit-or-miss, something like stream-of-consciousness in an era before revising was relatively easy. oy!--sorry to have assigned.

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) April 12, 2022

Joyce Carol Roaste

Whether or not you like James' sentences the idea that he (or any of them, but especially him) wrote that way because he didn't have a word processor is hilarious.

maybe she was feeling hangry and fired off a grumpy tweet & reconsidered later after she had something to eat

Lots of classics could have used an editor

i like the reply guy who boldly claims this is why *all* these authors read better in spanish

this is also what i think now (i don't read spanish)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46XqDu_54iA

will her tweets be better now that there’s an edit function??

It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

— Simone Weil (@simone_says_en) July 4, 2022

Milk, rolls and chocolate.

Franz Kafka, 1916.

— The sunny side of Franz Kafka (@AmschelKavka) December 18, 2022

Any good literary mastodon feeds out there?

Kafka would definitely toot after that shopping list —rolling laughing crying emoji X 3

Re: mastodon. Only joined for now, and have followed some ppl that I found through twitter/lit twitter but not gone beyond that.

Wouldn't know of this poetry if it wasn't for people sharing in grief (died a couple of days ago):

Gboyega and I met in Jan 2020, at a reading in a weird, tiny jazz club. Our fee was whatever got taken at the door, so afterwards we each took our £5 and hit the pub. It was always a joy to see him - he was so funny, and so brilliant. This poem is one of my favourites by anyone. pic.twitter.com/jsypaMeeLU

— Susannah Dickey (@SusannahDickey) September 1, 2023

A fund is going to be established for low-income black writers

Please donate & share ~ Gboyega Odubanjo – beloved son, brother, friend
https://t.co/mzAgfw2hmQ

— Amy Key (@msamykey) September 1, 2023