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January 19, 2013 By Meg Waite Clayton

Twitterature Quiz: a Literary Match Game with Hashtags

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?
…
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.

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Meg Waite Clayton is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of eight novels, including the Good Morning America Buzz pick and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice THE POSTMISTRESS OF PARIS, the National Jewish Book Award finalist THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, the Langum-Prize honored THE RACE FOR PARIS, and THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS, one of Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. Her novels have been published in 23 languages. She has also written more than 100 pieces for major newspapers, magazines, and public radio, mentors in the OpEd Project, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the California bar. megwaiteclayton.com

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