I recently posted on my Huffington Post blog a Twitterature Literary Match game — and thought I’d share it here along with the answers. Just match the 2012 tweet to its author.
The tweets:
1. Every time I type “novel,” I hit the wrong key + out comes “nivel.” Message from subconscious? OK, T-Pals: define #nivel!
2. It was not anything I asked for. His apology seemed sincere. I would’ve been happy to let it end there.
3. Oh well. If the world doesn’t end tonight, it’s not the end of the world.
4. Also: the fact that Eugenides assumed I was complaining, instead of trying to help out beginning female writers, is a shame. #sisterhood
5. Keep your verdicts about last night’s story coming. Was Miranda Brown’s death a #homicide, #suicide, or #accident? #twitterfiction
6. Just wrote HAT on my hand in a pathetic attempt to remember that I had a hat when I got on this aircraft, when I get off in 160 minutes…
The authors:
a. Salmon Rushdie @SalmanRushdie
b. Neil Gaiman @neilhimself
c. Jennifer Weiner @jenniferweiner
d. Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult
e. Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood
f. Elliott Holt @elliottholt
Got your answers?
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The correct answers:
1. e
“Every time I type “novel,” I hit the wrong key + out comes “nivel.” Message from subconscious? OK, T-Pals: define #nivel! :D”
Margaret Atwood (@margaretatwood) set off a flurry of definitions with this post. Her choice:
And you can see the picture here.
2. c
“It was not anything I asked for. His apology seemed sincere. I would’ve been happy to let it end there.”
Jennifer Weiner’s (@jenniferweiner) gracious response to a dust up that began with Weiner questioning Andrew Goldman’s writing in the New York Times Magazine, and ended with, among other things, a raised awareness of gender issues on twitter. There’s a nice piece on it in The Atlantic Wire
3. a
“Oh well. If the world doesn’t end tonight, it’s not the end of the world.”
Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) said in an article in the New York Times that he enjoys tweeting because “it allows one to be playful, to get a sense of what is on a lot of people’s minds at any given moment.” This tweet on the “Mayan end of the world” this December definitely shows his playful side.
4. d
“Also: the fact that Eugenides assumed I was complaining, instead of trying to help out beginning female writers, is a shame. #sisterhood”
Jodi Picoult, in response to Jeffrey Eugenides’ “I Don’t Know Why Jodi Picoult is Belly-Aching” in Salon, has long been a vocal voice in raising awareness of the difficulties women authors face in getting literary attention and respect.
5. f
“Keep your verdicts about last night’s story coming. Was Miranda Brown’s death a #homicide, #suicide, or #accident? #twitterfiction”
Elliott Holt’s (@ElliottHolt) tweet came near the end of her entry in the first ever Twitter Fiction Festival: a mystery story that was one of the 29 selected by the panelists (including moi!) to celebrate fiction experimentation on twitter. And the guilty party was … You’ll have to read!
6. b
“Just wrote HAT on my hand in a pathetic attempt to remember that I had a hat when I got on this aircraft, when I get off in 160 minutes…”
This opening tweet by Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) after he boarded a flight resulted in, among other responses, someone opening an account as @neilhimselfshat to tweet to Neil not to forget him. End result? Neil remembered the hat.
