@helendewitt Avatar @helendewitt Helen DeWitt

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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @deepvellum @columbiaup @ilyagridneff @dalkeyarchive @thelincoln @colindickey @scotthech @lkonstan @helendewitts @publicbooks @njdames @triaspirational @3v3ha @backlistedpod @newdirections @languagelog @tomandlorenzo @churchtimes @ryanruby @readliberties

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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"I'm in Amsterdam thanks to a very kind reader. A joy of the apartment is in fact current absence of WiFi (recalcitrant provider) but I urgently need to deal with a couple of professional emails where phone won't do. Tried library b only saw instructions for app to connect phone"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Don't want to keep madly reposting but frankly lost for words. It's as if someone asked How can we make it ABSOLUTELY CLEAR that we are not a serious paper It seems like only yesterday that nearly every American newspaper dozens and dozens of them even in mid-size cities ran book reviews by local critics. The alt-weeklies (I wrote for many of them) were everywhere and had feisty and boisterous book sections. Time Newsweek It seems like only yesterday that nearly every American newspaper dozens and dozens of them even in mid-size cities ran book reviews by local critics. The alt-weeklies (I"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:18Z [----] followers, 17.3K engagements

"Anyone in Amsterdam who might be able to help Seems the days of laptop friendly cafes are long gone"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Update a reader pointed out that I could go to Starbucks. Yes. Headpiece filled with straw - for [--] days I had been trying libraries failing blundering around & had not once thought of Starbucks (there is one [--] streets away)"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"James Wood reviews Some Trick in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/04/helen-dewitt-has-your-number https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/04/helen-dewitt-has-your-number"
X Link 2018-05-29T13:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@TheLincoln @colindickey Also it selects for the kind of person who is shameless about asking for refs. (Now that I've been asked for refs by people I barely know & seen the startling track record on their CVs I can see this is a worryingly dominant strategy.)"
X Link 2019-02-15T17:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"My author's copies of the Korean edition of Lightning Rods have come and are SO witty and clever. Despise me if you dare my only smartphone is a Tracfone that does not work in Germany but here are some pics taken with my laptop"
X Link 2019-02-25T13:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"ICYMI "It is difficult to ask actors to speak more clearly. . Sometimes speaking the most common Danish accents would simply make the movies and the characters seem implausible" (Why Danes get subtitles for Danish movies) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/03/06/mumbling-danish-actors-force-countrys-theaters-to-subtitle-danish-films/utm_term=.17c499f602ab https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/03/06/mumbling-danish-actors-force-countrys-theaters-to-subtitle-danish-films/utm_term=.17c499f602ab"
X Link 2019-03-17T07:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Exh'd. Wrote new webpage for Some Trick updated MANY OTHER webpages all God help me in raw HTML. Have now tried to upload to host but as so often in the past something is Wrong failed connection only a Campari & soda at the Four Columns is keeping me from going berserk"
X Link 2019-06-15T23:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Restless Books is offering a $10K prize & publication for debut work of fiction by first-generation immigrant https://restlessbooks.org/prize-for-new-immigrant-writing/ https://restlessbooks.org/prize-for-new-immigrant-writing/"
X Link 2020-01-06T21:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"People may find that they could be a lot less stressed if they organized around collective resources by building community and engaging more politically in solidarity with others in changing our political and economic systems. The Problem with the Mindfulness Movement https://t.co/3oO6T738yU The Problem with the Mindfulness Movement https://t.co/3oO6T738yU"
X Link 2020-01-16T20:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@ScottHech I was having trouble getting to sleep at [--] am after night shifts looking after my mother started using the 20-lb weighted blanket I'd bought her which she hated: fabulous. Even if I only have a few hours gives very deep sleep"
X Link 2020-10-03T11:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Have just had an email from a reader whose book club has finished The Last Samurai. The previous book was The Brothers Karamazov. The next book is Billy Budd. First book club I've heard of that my ex might have liked (favourite novel Moby Dick favourite author Faulkner)"
X Link 2020-11-25T20:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"A tweet re copyediting turned up in my TL yesterday making familiar claims: the copyeditor is not judging you just wants to make sure you wanted to do whatever it is you did. You don't have to explain in fact they don't want an explanation. STET is fine. 1/8"
X Link 2021-03-14T15:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"My mother came home from rehab today. I got her wheelchair in over the tough step at the front door; she looked around amazed. 'I LOVE this They've done a WONDERFUL job They must have spent millions' 'They' = the people who have created an exact replica of her home"
X Link 2021-03-25T04:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Lost for words. Grateful shamefaced. Want to make beeline back for Germany but probably need to stay at least another [--] months. Have no conceivable claim on my sister's bf so this was unbelievably kind"
X Link 2021-04-07T15:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Who would not be glad to know this Esp since the posters are often of films so different in style from Ozu's In many of his silent films Japanese director Yasujir Ozu included posters from movies he liked https://t.co/WSAd6zWZC9 In many of his silent films Japanese director Yasujir Ozu included posters from movies he liked https://t.co/WSAd6zWZC9"
X Link 2021-05-28T21:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Afterthought. I once did take a workshop. This was an intensive weekend workshop on lockpicking which took place at a hotel in the E Midlands. It was GREAT We had to sign a statement to effect no criminal record etc but I don't think anyone checked"
X Link 2021-05-29T00:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"New Russian edition of The Last Samurai arrived yesterday after failed attempt at delivery to Berlin address return to sender. Pretty sweet. (We now know the Russian for short-list & long-list.)"
X Link 2021-07-24T16:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"supposed to be commenting on proposed cover for new book revisiting Bookmarks (as one does) SAUSAGE dogs SAUSAGE dogs"
X Link 2021-11-07T22:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"A reader has very kindly agreed to reclear permissions throughout the world for THE LAST SAMURAI & also to tackle permissions for a possible audiobook so am trying to pull together the existing material instead of just sending off a mass of correspondence"
X Link 2021-12-28T21:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Found sketch (unfinished) of my mother from [----] in old drawing pad (you can see the bits I wd have had to work a lot harder to get right) - she would have been 44"
X Link 2022-01-09T17:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I had my appt w the immigration dept last month lawyer came & handled everything astonishingly was given permanent residence r th the 3yr freelance permit which he'd thought was best we could hope for (i.e. we weren't even APPLYING for permanent). 1/3"
X Link 2022-09-14T16:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I don't think I dare to read it but anyone who does can tell me anything they think I should know Lee Konstantinou's (@LKonstan) THE LAST SAMURAI REREAD explores what makes @helendewitt's novel so extraordinary and the extraordinary story behind its publication. Read an excerpt in @PublicBooks https://t.co/nCq2TLo6RQ #Rereadings @ColumbiaUP @n_j_dames @triaspirational Lee Konstantinou's (@LKonstan) THE LAST SAMURAI REREAD explores what makes @helendewitt's novel so extraordinary and the extraordinary story behind its publication. Read an excerpt in @PublicBooks https://t.co/nCq2TLo6RQ"
X Link 2022-11-29T10:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@3v3ha @IlyaGridneff @BacklistedPod Yes. @DeepVellum has sent us a contract I have sent notes to our agent who will discuss w DV I think the plan is to publish in [----] in the @Dalkey_Archive imprint"
X Link 2022-11-30T12:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"A mere [--] months after my last book came out I am updating my website. I know a lot of indie bookstores now sell online; if anyone would like to be included under Where To Buy do let me know"
X Link 2023-02-17T15:21Z [----] followers, 19.5K engagements

"McCarthys style was instantly recognisable: sparse often entirely omitting punctuation and using polysyndeton inserting conjugations to slow the rhythm of his language Grauniad strikes again https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/13/cormac-mccarthy-dead-novelist https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/13/cormac-mccarthy-dead-novelist"
X Link 2023-06-14T05:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Cormac McCarthy is dead. Martin Amis is dead. People are making nice noises about their dedication to style. None of it makes any difference to authors who imagine they can choose their influences as McCarthy and Amis did"
X Link 2023-06-17T12:09Z [----] followers, 193.5K engagements

"It's [--] years since a copyeditor Tippexed out my mark-up (despite contract giving author final approval) abetted by production mgr & editor"
X Link 2023-06-17T12:09Z [----] followers, 19.1K engagements

"An editor who thought McCarthy was dreary & pretentious that The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was "a very special book" (this is of course what a final approval clause is meant to protect against)"
X Link 2023-06-17T12:11Z [----] followers, 18.6K engagements

"If the contract had been respected I could have signed off on the book & gone back to other unfinished books (the clause was also of course meant to protect my time)"
X Link 2023-06-17T12:13Z [----] followers, 17.3K engagements

"23 years later there's still an assumption that a normal part of production is "cleaning up the text" - the boilerplate clause still gives the publisher the right to bring a text into compliance w house style as I discovered on getting a contract last Nov from @DeepVellum"
X Link 2023-06-17T12:16Z [----] followers, 16.8K engagements

"This was a contract that had been gone over & passed on to me by an agent I naturally replaced this garbage with a clause that gave author final approval (also in all my contracts with @NewDirections )"
X Link 2023-06-17T12:18Z [----] followers, 16.1K engagements

"But that doesn't change the fundamental assumption that it's the NORM to pass a text on to a copyeditor to act as textual chambermaid (in my days as a ch'd I wd signal that a room had been cleaned by sliding a slip of paper over the seat of the toilet & texts need this signal)"
X Link 2023-06-17T12:20Z [----] followers, 15.5K engagements

"As a reader I want to see the traces of Faulkner & Hemingway in McCarthy r than the slip of paper over the toilet. I want to see the traces of Bellow & Nabokov in Amis rather than the slip of paper over the toilet"
X Link 2023-06-17T12:22Z [----] followers, 15.6K engagements

"I'd like to see the introduction of a McCarthy Clause as standard in contracts from publishers who claim to take literature seriously. The BOILERPLATE shd be a clause giving the author final approval on matters of usage punctuation style"
X Link 2023-06-17T12:25Z [----] followers, 14.9K engagements

"Robert Gottlieb wd apparently argue for hours over a semi-colon but a lot of people in the biz don't have a strong personal preference they're just anxious to have the slip of paper on the toilet"
X Link 2023-06-17T12:26Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements

"There are people who look to the Chicago Manual of Style or Strunk & White for guidance who have not been avidly following @LanguageLog who haven't read Lieberman & Pullum's Far from the Madding Gerund or Anne Curzan's Fixing English"
X Link 2023-06-17T12:31Z [----] followers, 13K engagements

"This is crazy. Who could seriously think: Yes I'm willing to sacrifice all the other books you could be finishing to a slip of paper on the toilet. People will think we're not serious if we don't have a slip of paper on the toilet"
X Link 2023-06-17T12:35Z [----] followers, 12.3K engagements

"We've had all the McCarthy we're going to get. Surely we shouldn't subscribe to a principle that allows the automatic erasure of his influence upon publication of writers immersed in his sentences The McCarthy Clause: we want it now"
X Link 2023-06-17T12:40Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements

"PS clause I use: The Publisher shall have the right to edit the Work but agrees to make no changes in the textincluding w/o limitation style of punctuation spelling capitalization and usagewithout prior written approval from the Author"
X Link 2023-06-17T14:00Z [----] followers, 15.8K engagements

"Tempting to add to a neverending thread but no. The quote I wanted for the cover of Lightning Rods was: LIGHTNING RODS I HATE THAT BOOK Mary DeWitt Griffin (Helen's Mom) Totally unsolicited btw so trustworthy Publishers strangely unkeen"
X Link 2023-07-05T13:53Z [----] followers, 21.2K engagements

"There was also: I think this could destroy your career. Alison Samuel Senior Editor Chatto & Windus You might want to publish this under another name. Lois Wallace (agent of Don DeLillo)"
X Link 2023-07-05T13:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@tomandlorenzo My sister and I (3 5) flooded our house in Mexico by flushing the head of a baby doll we hated down the toilet"
X Link 2023-07-24T08:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Got letters today from IRS & German tax authorities which I naturally opened in dread - owe no money to IRS & the Steuerbehrde is going to send a refund of [----] so whew & wow. Anguish of preparing tax returns rewarded (only those familiar w ELSTER can really understand)"
X Link 2023-08-03T12:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I probably can't stay in Berlin so am trying to get book collection down to what I can afford to store. Have been compiling list for bookshop that sells secondhand books but if anyone in Berlin sees something they'd like let me know. Free to good home. https://paperpools.blogspot.com/2023/08/clearing-out-books-last-chance-before.html https://paperpools.blogspot.com/2023/08/clearing-out-books-last-chance-before.html"
X Link 2023-08-13T10:53Z [----] followers, 31.3K engagements

"Wow. On mailing list of a small publisher who sent an email saying they're hiring [--] jobs in London paying 25K & 30K. I was offered 33K to stay on at a law firm as a legal secretary in 1998"
X Link 2023-09-08T16:37Z [----] followers, 52.6K engagements

"At the time my former bedsit in Zone [--] was going for [--] a week (I think it's now up to 200)"
X Link 2023-09-08T16:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Discovered a few days ago that most of my website is virtually unreadable on my phone. Only got smartphone in [----] bc needed to show vax status in Berlin so website has probably been like this for much longer. The horror. Looking into Squarespace with dread"
X Link 2023-09-24T17:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Ian Marchant has chosen The English Understand Wool as his favourite book of [----] in @ChurchTimes https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2023/24-november/books-arts/book-reviews/book-reviews-my-favourite-book-of-2023 https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2023/24-november/books-arts/book-reviews/book-reviews-my-favourite-book-of-2023"
X Link 2023-11-24T13:30Z [----] followers, 25K engagements

"@ryanruby @readliberties How Proust Can Explain the Gap in Your CV"
X Link 2024-01-03T16:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@MoiraDonegan Wilson is unsurprisingly bothered by instances of philological carelessness (to which the publishers were sublimely oblivious) but seemed to me to give a generally appreciative reading of Carson's work so well K"
X Link 2024-06-04T18:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"So For everyone whos been wheedling to buy it in pdf behind the scenes it will be available to buy legit next year. YOUR NAME HERE is a truly remarkable novel and we are honored that @helendewitt @IlyaGridneff and @_triangle_house have entrusted us with the vision. YOUR NAME HERE is a truly remarkable novel and we are honored that @helendewitt @IlyaGridneff and @_triangle_house have entrusted us with the vision"
X Link 2024-09-23T14:11Z [----] followers, 49.6K engagements

"So unlike the degenerate youth of today @diconodioggi "3 October Today I read Book I of the Argonautica up to line [----] and I mastered another [--] Japanese characters and I practised some more knots and I read Half Mile Down." Helen De Witt The Last Samurai @helendewitt @diconodioggi "3 October Today I read Book I of the Argonautica up to line [----] and I mastered another [--] Japanese characters and I practised some more knots and I read Half Mile Down." Helen De Witt The Last Samurai @helendewitt"
X Link 2024-10-03T10:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Bravo OUR HERO OF THE DAY: This is Washington Post Editor At Large Robert Kagan. He resigned from the newspaper today in protest over the paper's decision to holdout on endorsing Kamala Harris. Join us in wishing him well in his next career move. https://t.co/er6ksearaA OUR HERO OF THE DAY: This is Washington Post Editor At Large Robert Kagan. He resigned from the newspaper today in protest over the paper's decision to holdout on endorsing Kamala Harris. Join us in wishing him well in his next career move. https://t.co/er6ksearaA"
X Link 2024-10-25T22:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"In [----] I read @LKonstans The Last Samurai Reread. No comment re critique but was shocked by inaccuracies & misrepresentations of publication history tried to get fixed. @ColumbiaUP wont make even minor corrections. For those who care about bg: not a reliable source"
X Link 2024-11-19T12:23Z [----] followers, 49.1K engagements

"So lovely - and funnily enough she sounds a bit like Jean Seberg (whom she cites as an inspiration) ✨ Pamela Anderson's Closet Picks ✨The actor and star of THE LAST SHOWGIRL talks about being profoundly inspired by Barbara Lodens WANDA shares her passion for the poetry of Abbas Kiarostami and praises the style and craft of actors like Romy Schneider Katharine Hepburn https://t.co/rLOYINbcoc ✨ Pamela Anderson's Closet Picks ✨The actor and star of THE LAST SHOWGIRL talks about being profoundly inspired by Barbara Lodens WANDA shares her passion for the poetry of Abbas Kiarostami and praises the"
X Link 2024-12-19T11:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Reading a lot of threads on translations of the Odyssey. Would like to put in a good word for translations you hate"
X Link 2024-12-29T12:51Z [----] followers, 135.8K engagements

"When I was in my teens I was obsessed with The Lord of the Rings; IIRC Bilbo loved Elvish poetry thought the language was the best for poetry (so you would obviously want to learn the language to read the poetry) - not a POV promoted re real literary languages in my schools"
X Link 2024-12-29T12:51Z [----] followers, 12.2K engagements

"Was obsessed with the linguistic appendices to vol [--] of LOTR but at the time there werent a lot of texts using the languages. (Tolkien created the languages on aesthetic principles not surprising they were seductive.)"
X Link 2024-12-29T12:51Z [----] followers, 11.4K engagements

"In 12th grade anyway I was sent to boarding school & we read the Oresteia and Sophocles Oedipus plays in English translation. I LOATHED these texts. The idea behind the series was virtuous:"
X Link 2024-12-29T12:51Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements

"instead of commissioning translations of Greek tragedy from classicists each text was the result of a collaboration between a classicist and a poet the idea being that the result would be a work of poetry in its own right"
X Link 2024-12-29T12:53Z [----] followers, 10.5K engagements

"But as I say I LOATHED these texts which seemed to me (I would now say) to equate a flavour of modernism with the Poetic. I thought: If Sophocles had written something like THIS the plays would never have survived for over [----] years. The original HAS to be better than THIS"
X Link 2024-12-29T12:55Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements

"The next year I started Greek at Smith inspired partly by loathing of these texts partly by Bilbos commitment to reading great poetry in the original language and partly by my love of the linguistic appendices to LOTR [--]. I loved Greek"
X Link 2024-12-29T12:56Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements

"In semester [--] of year [--] we read Platos Apology of Socrates. The next year I took a course on the Odyssey at Amherst in which we read I think [--] books as well as a course on Platos Symposium at Smith which started with [--] students one of whom dropped out"
X Link 2024-12-29T12:57Z [----] followers, 10.4K engagements

"Had to start BA from scratch the following year (father: appalled). Terrifying syllabus (all of Homer in Greek all of Virgil in Latin many many other texts all to be read independently). But obviously life-changing -"
X Link 2024-12-29T13:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I felt I was being serious in the way that Eliot and Pound (& so many others) had been serious. And just as a reminder the trigger was my OUTRAGE at translations I LOATHED with every fibre of my being. But- these very translations are in Anne Carsons collection of key books"
X Link 2024-12-29T13:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I dont question Carsons judgement but I also dont think I cd look at the books without wanting to vomit. Sometimes one is bowled over by a translation - how can that not be good But visceral loathing is not necessarily bad. More than one way for poetry to change your life"
X Link 2024-12-29T13:19Z [----] followers, 11.8K engagements

"Addendum to insanely long thread re translations: the thing I found terrifying was the things that werent said. When we read Greek tragedy in translation its not that our English teacher said it wasnt worth reading them in the original; it was never mentioned as a possibility"
X Link 2024-12-29T13:44Z [----] followers, 16.4K engagements

"You had to know by intuition - or by hints from Tolkien via Bilbo Baggins - that reading a great poet in the original language might be worth doing"
X Link 2024-12-29T13:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"A great account to follow (the algorithm has apparently brought it to the attention of only [---] of my followers when everyone should know) Arabic literature forthcoming in English translation [----]. Includes the first works in English by the fantastic Gaza-based poet Nasser Rabah Egyptian novelist Shady Lewis Omani poet-novelist Zahran Alqasmi Syrian-Kurdish writer Jan Dost +++ https://t.co/uWnzxb4yiS Arabic literature forthcoming in English translation [----]. Includes the first works in English by the fantastic Gaza-based poet Nasser Rabah Egyptian novelist Shady Lewis Omani poet-novelist"
X Link 2025-01-01T13:42Z [----] followers, 16.6K engagements

"Yep another Lynch retweet (irresistible) - how he came to work with Mel Books on The Elephant Man (Brooks is amazing captures something about Lynch that doesnt come through in Ls interviews) DAVID LYNCH and MEL BROOKS on how they came to work together on THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980) #RIPDavidLynch https://t.co/1y3AJFGw9S DAVID LYNCH and MEL BROOKS on how they came to work together on THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980) #RIPDavidLynch https://t.co/1y3AJFGw9S"
X Link 2025-01-17T18:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Its extraordinary to see what a difference it makes to have a reviewer who can read the texts in the original Norwegian and can also see the importance of Kierkegaard to the author (and so sees at once how key terms are elided in the translation) Women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less serious less universal than men who write about men drinking and writing and sleeping around. from my essay on Vigdis Hjorths If Only https://t.co/diwth5aBbM Women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until"
X Link 2025-01-29T18:12Z [----] followers, 28.9K engagements

"If anything could get me to listen to a podcast this would be it (though I do hate them so even @TorilMoi MIGHT not be enough to overcome this rooted prejudice). If unlike me you are more openminded you will undoubtedly want to listen agog On the podcast @TorilMoi joins Malin Hay to discuss the Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth master of the collapsing relationship. What does her early reputation as an erotic novelist get wrong about her work Listen wherever you get podcasts or here: https://t.co/N8Z3vF6DGV On the podcast @TorilMoi joins Malin Hay to discuss the Norwegian novelist Vigdis"
X Link 2025-02-06T12:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"So good A conversation between Takeshi Kitano and Akira Kurosawa [----]. https://t.co/noqPZJ5FmW A conversation between Takeshi Kitano and Akira Kurosawa [----]. https://t.co/noqPZJ5FmW"
X Link 2025-02-26T01:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"For readers of The Last Samurai who have never seen the Carling Black Label ad https://www.youtube.com/watchv=wetDw2koziU https://www.youtube.com/watchv=wetDw2koziU"
X Link 2025-03-08T12:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Several years ago a foreign rights agent told me she cd not give me the email addresses of the editors of publishers who had published translations of The Last Samurai because of data privacy rules in the EU. Does anyone know if this is true"
X Link 2025-03-15T14:39Z [----] followers, 10.8K engagements

"Ive had a message from a follower saying she accidentally reported me to X and asked her friends to report me and apparently I need to contact X to contest this if I am not to be banned. Not sure I have the energy because"
X Link 2025-04-09T13:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Im proofreading Your Name Here and the Arabic typesetting is up the creek. So if my account is banned and you never hear from me again thats why"
X Link 2025-04-09T13:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Meanwhile seems the files for Your Name Here sent to @DeepVellum lost Arabic fonts along the way so the galleys are an unholy mess. Why this could not have been resolved before sending doc to typesetter is anyones guess. The Way We Live Now"
X Link 2025-04-13T11:49Z [----] followers, 11.1K engagements

"Just got an email from @wwborders saying their NEA grant has been terminated b/c their work does not align with the administrations priorities. Words fail me. Anyone who would like to support them can do so here: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/words-without-borders/build-an-expansive-global-vision-of-our-worldmc_cid=199611575d https://secure.givelively.org/donate/words-without-borders/build-an-expansive-global-vision-of-our-worldmc_cid=199611575d"
X Link 2025-05-05T20:41Z [----] followers, 10.3K engagements

"trying to find name of author (whom Im sure I follow) and my search skills are letting me down - any ideas"
X Link 2025-05-07T10:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Funny to read about these essays written using ChatGPT. My tutor advised me to read C.S. Lewis to improve my prose style so I read his English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (before this I had supposed an essay should be written in the style of Dr Johnson)"
X Link 2025-05-07T23:06Z [----] followers, 35K engagements

"When I remember preparing for the Oxford Entrance Exam desperately reading Dr Johnson under the impression that this was how British students wrote I cant help seeing that ChatGPT would at least have shown what the conventions actually were"
X Link 2025-05-07T23:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@ahouse4all misled (pr MYzled) tbh my version sounded much more sinister"
X Link 2025-05-18T15:26Z [----] followers, 21.1K engagements

"Reading vargas llosa's conversacion en la catedral have translation to hand was transl based on earlier version of text Fair number of apparent mistakes. P [--] woman descr as idiota con la cara negruzca transl has fat Indian woman with blackish face"
X Link 2025-05-24T15:36Z [----] followers, 10K engagements

"@1followernodad No one would ever have used the word roam. Can remember (14-15 yo) cycling about [--] miles to the pubic library in Gainseville FL not sure I even mentioned where I was going"
X Link 2025-06-07T08:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Over [---] copies sold The cover of Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneffs YOUR NAME HERE is also your first taste of the remarkable shapeshifting novel that awaits you. https://t.co/pZEfV2GDpI The cover of Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneffs YOUR NAME HERE is also your first taste of the remarkable shapeshifting novel that awaits you. https://t.co/pZEfV2GDpI"
X Link 2025-06-18T14:02Z [----] followers, 21.5K engagements

"Wish I'd heard about it when it came out sounds amazing this metafictional novel called "s." by doug horst & j. j. abrams was published [--] years ago but i never see people posting about it. the author v.m. straka is made up & the annotations are actually not mine they're part of the fiction which wants to make us believe that . https://t.co/MM8iEnGiho this metafictional novel called "s." by doug horst & j. j. abrams was published [--] years ago but i never see people posting about it. the author v.m. straka is made up & the annotations are actually not mine they're part of the fiction which"
X Link 2025-09-12T08:02Z [----] followers, 25.4K engagements

"I've received an email from someone whose mother-in-law was being pushed for a contract by a "book broker" called Lucy Peterson who claimed she'd worked with me. In case anyone comes across her this is a complete fabrication. She had no role in reissue of The Last Samurai"
X Link 2025-09-15T11:11Z [----] followers, 13.6K engagements

"So good n un [--] septembre est interview par Jacques Rivette en [----] et voque la fin de lart cinmatographique quand la technique ne cesse de progresser permettant dimiter ce qui existe dj dans la ralit.😍 https://t.co/jLis41O9Zj n un [--] septembre est interview par Jacques Rivette en [----] et voque la fin de lart cinmatographique quand la technique ne cesse de progresser permettant dimiter ce qui existe dj dans la ralit.😍 https://t.co/jLis41O9Zj"
X Link 2025-09-15T14:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"So good to be reviewed by @NameofAuthor1 More reviews should be like this (Of course now that it's too late I wish I had used Name of Author instead of Helen DeWitt in YNH. Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: It might have been) today @MinorLits @NameofAuthor1 on @helendewitt & Ilya Gridneff (@Dalkey_Archive) https://t.co/oqNfQw3P3G today @MinorLits @NameofAuthor1 on @helendewitt & Ilya Gridneff (@Dalkey_Archive) https://t.co/oqNfQw3P3G"
X Link 2025-09-17T11:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Needed to know this - thank you Stephen Gibbons Columbo is so big in Japan that theres a series of books and TV movies titled "Columbo of Shinano" featuring a detective who dresses and behaves like him. I've no idea what he's saying in this clip but I can guess. https://t.co/iNa2YSa9ys Columbo is so big in Japan that theres a series of books and TV movies titled "Columbo of Shinano" featuring a detective who dresses and behaves like him. I've no idea what he's saying in this clip but I can guess. https://t.co/iNa2YSa9ys"
X Link 2025-09-26T07:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"times obit on the Oresteia I was lucky enough to see So sad to hear of the death of Tony Harrison. He was a superb poet & extraordinary man. A highlight of my career was filming & interviewing him for @EngMediaCentre Poetry Station. 1/https://t.co/XlYb3HQ2oL So sad to hear of the death of Tony Harrison. He was a superb poet & extraordinary man. A highlight of my career was filming & interviewing him for @EngMediaCentre Poetry Station. 1/https://t.co/XlYb3HQ2oL"
X Link 2025-09-27T07:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@TheCinesthetic Seven Samurai"
X Link 2025-10-07T14:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Went to DC for a week to visit my sister take care of some things surprised to see I was the only one wearing a mask on all flights. Not v virtuous in daily life but still nervous about being crammed in with a lot of people for hours"
X Link 2025-10-08T14:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"A brilliant choice - can only hope giving her work a higher profile will bring much-needed international support BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the [----] #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to https://t.co/Zgth8KNJk9 BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the [----] #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of"
X Link 2025-10-10T09:50Z [----] followers, 89.5K engagements

"Delighted to see that @nyrbclassics is reissuing Jack the Modernist (I still have the copy I bought ca. 1989). 25% off for the next [--] days https://www.nyrb.com/products/jack-the-modernist https://www.nyrb.com/products/jack-the-modernist"
X Link 2025-10-10T20:20Z [----] followers, 15.1K engagements

"@latinedisce Is this so very different from the time many years ago when David Levene introduced me to Mel Brooks' The Producers so that I suddenly "got" Aristophanes & later wrote Lightning Rods Sometimes a modern point of reference can be enlightening in approaching an ancient text"
X Link 2025-10-19T21:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Wonderful piece and moving to hear how these editors discovered and were blown away by his work when so much was out of print Heti and Dan on Gary. https://t.co/wZoUQYJBae Heti and Dan on Gary. https://t.co/wZoUQYJBae"
X Link 2025-10-23T23:19Z [----] followers, 18.6K engagements

"Gets my vote OK. Hear me out. A buddy cop show with these two as Interpol agents. https://t.co/YKurrbLACV OK. Hear me out. A buddy cop show with these two as Interpol agents. https://t.co/YKurrbLACV"
X Link 2025-10-24T18:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"In fact I made [--] pieces. I got completely into this world of making tiny tiny little pieces of music. https://x.com/michael_nielsen/status/915810304629497856 Brian Eno on the design specs for the Windows [--] startup chime: https://t.co/a2mFs0PQVE https://x.com/michael_nielsen/status/915810304629497856 Brian Eno on the design specs for the Windows [--] startup chime: https://t.co/a2mFs0PQVE"
X Link 2017-10-05T14:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Now I want to write a book for which this is the cover. https://x.com/kengarex/status/942729274687148032 https://x.com/kengarex/status/942729274687148032"
X Link 2017-12-19T11:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

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