Recently, the New York Times tackled the burning question of why authors tweet. One main reason? To connect with the reader, of course:
For one thing, publishers are pushing authors to hobnob with readers on Twitter and Facebook in the hope they will sell more copies. But there’s another reason: Many authors have little [...]

When Twitter arrived on the scene, its proponents found themselves defending the very short. James Poniewozik put Twitter in historical context, and, in the New York Times, writer and teacher Andy Selsberg argued that writing short could make you a better writer.
Now, in the L.A. Times, Pico Iyer writes a defense of the [...]

Oh, the difference a single letter makes! The recent Twitter hashtag #bookswithalettermissing marks hilarious (and sometimes brilliant) titles like:

@CodeNameTanya: Notes on a Sandal
@KBreathnach: Civilization and its Disco Tents
@SPLBuzz Harold and the Purple Rayon
@EditorEric: The Mon Is a Harsh Mistress: Heinlein’s memoir of a relationship w/Jamaican transvestite dominatrix
@atbennet: Far from the adding crowd: a [...]

I have a theory that in 50 years, or maybe even 20, scholars will be studying a new form of fiction that’s just beginning now. It’s not exactly narrative, nor is it strictly prose. In fact, some of it isn’t even stories.
But it involves imagining the secret details of characters’ lives, articulating their [...]

For the past few weeks, book-loving Twitterers have been amusing themselves by coming up with Less Interesting Books. Here are a few of my favorites:

The Devil Wears Hush Puppies (@TheJaneChannel)
To Give a Mockingbird a Stern Talking To (@andrewvanorden)
A Farewell to Arms: Coping with Amputation (@waltonky)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Glendale Galleria (@peteFweiss)
The At-Times-Slightly-Unpleasant-But-Altogether-Perfectly-Manageable Lightness [...]

In honor of Bloomsday, the literary project Ulysses Meets Twitter is conducting an online reading of Joyce’s masterpiece today (@11ysses). Says the project’s website:
This is not an attempt to tweet mindlessly the entire contents of Ulysses, word-for-word, 140 characters at a time. That would be dull and impossible. What is proposed here is a [...]

Here at FWR, we’re certainly doing our collective best to honor the art and craft of the short story this month. But there are lots of ways that each fiction writer can celebrate short stories individually. Here are five possibilities:

Participate in #StorySunday: Reminded each Sunday by @TaniaHershman, short-story fans are encouraged to share a link [...]

Twitter turned five this week—an event celebrated by some and bemoaned by others. Is the (very) short form killing or helping our communication?
Writer and teacher Andy Selsberg argues that learning to write short can make you a better writer:
I don’t expect all my graduates to go on to Twitter-based careers, but learning how to [...]

Can you explain why you write in 140 characters or less? In response to a question by agent Jason Ashlock, hundreds of people have been trying with the hashtag #whyIwrite on Twitter. Here are some of their responses, which range from the humorous to the downright profound:
ANaderGretly: #WhyIWrite Because it’s an excuse to [...]

That basic unit of literature, the sentence, has been getting a lot of attention lately thanks to Stanley Fish’s new book How to Write a Sentence. In it, Fish makes an argument that sentences are to writing what paint is to painting:
But wouldn’t the equivalent of paint be words rather than sentences? Actually, no, [...]