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Kevin Cullen (@GlobeCullen) and Shelley Murphy (@shelleymurph), Boston Globe reporters and co-authors of the New York Times bestselling book Whitey Bulger, are live-tweeting the Bulger trial from inside the courtroom in Boston.
Irvine Welsh author of Trainspotting, Porno, Filth… favorited one of my tweets last night and today he responded to another to say I flipped my fucking shit is a total understatement!!!! guys Irvine Welsh acknowledged my existence!! one of my favorite authors! the man gave us Begbie, Renton, Spud, and Sick Boy for crying out loud!!
Say hello to Irvine Welsh on Twitter (@WelshIrvine). You never know what’ll happen.
A Twitter feud in June between the Estonian president and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman who questioned the impact of Estonia’s austerity measures, is being turned into an opera, US composer Eugene Birman told AFP on Wednesday.
You can read more on The Raw Story. More to come as this breaking news develops.
A few outtakes from the grand finale of our retweeting of Shakespeare for the Twitter Fiction Festival via @joyandwoe and @gabrielsquailia.
We’ve been having a good time this week participating in the Twitter Fiction Festival (#twitterfiction). Our contribution was a series of Shakespeare “performances” that we called Shakespeare: A Retweeting. For the grand finale this afternoon we performed the epilogue to A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a little help from our friends. You can see it all on Storify.
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Two more additions to our Shakespeare: A Retweeting experiment for the Twitter Fiction Festival (#twitterfiction). Read two completely retweeted sonnets on Storify: Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 116.
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The Twitter Fiction Festival kicked off today. Here’s our first contribution: a retweeting of Hamlet, Act III, Scene i.
And our second: the prologue to Romeo and Juliet. Follow along on Twitter at @wwnorton.
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The Twitter Fiction Festival selections have just been announced and we’re excited to be a part of the great literary experiment. For our part, we’ll be re-tweeting some of the great works of William Shakespeare from @wwnorton as found organically on Twitter. We call it Shakespeare: A Re-Tweeting.
Things kick off tomorrow at #twitterfiction. Follow along and re-tweet with us.
A few of our favorite Irvine Welsh tweets (@WelshIrvine).
If you like these, you might also enjoy his interview with BlackBook Magazine, where they start with Irvine accidentally dropping an 18-year-old bottle of Scotch on 19th Street in New York City and work backwards from there.
