Literary twitterati: from Martello towers to hell and back

Our weekly round-up of tweets from the book world.


<br/> Stately, plump Buck Mulligan browsed the restored, one-bedroom Martello Tower in Dalkey on MyHome.ie; a steal at just two million euros.

'Nobody Move' by Denis Johnson is the very definition of noir: every character doomed to inhabit other people's hells as well as their own.

Words on the Street - 11 writers, 11 voices, 11 venues. Nassau St and environs 6.30-9 on 15 May. Free event. <a href="http://t.co/IYPBViCM5o">http://t.co/IYPBViCM5o</a>

Photograph: Thinkstock
Photograph: Thinkstock

I'm reading with Donal Ryan this coming Saturday at <a href="https://twitter.com/thedockarts">@thedockarts</a> for the McGahern Seminar: <a href="http://t.co/0HstyoqhOl">http://t.co/0HstyoqhOl</a>

"'S' the kin' o' mawky shite that gets my melt off,' she said." Yep, I can see how City of Bohane might be difficult to <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23translate&amp;src=hash">#translate</a> alright.

My friend & author <a href="https://twitter.com/katekerrigan">@katekerrigan</a> left her laptop with her new novel in a taxi from Heuston Station to BT at 1pm today. Pls help! <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LostNovel&amp;src=hash">#LostNovel</a>

COMPETITION! Tweet us a pic and use <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23DublinReadingSpots&amp;src=hash">#DublinReadingSpots</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23DWF2014&amp;src=hash">#DWF2014</a> to win TICKETS, SIGNED BOOKS, TOTES or DINNER <a href="https://twitter.com/brookshotel">@brookshotel</a>

Just discovered that Dante never visited Hell, and didn't even know Virgil. Disgusted. Will be asking for my money back. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Inferno&amp;src=hash">#Inferno</a>

Dublin, I have been practising the bejeezus out of this reading at the National Library on Thursday so if you don't all come I will cry.

Missing something? Tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/PandaPolitics" target="_blank">@PandaPolitics</a>