30 Essential Literary Twitter Feeds
Does it count as a subtweet if it’s about someone who wouldn’t be caught dead looking at Twitter? #JonathanFranzen
— Maris Kreizman (@mariskreizman) September 13, 2013
Franzen published something! [grabs shotgun and pulls loved ones into panic room]
— Jacob Silverman (@silvermanjacob) September 13, 2013
Honorable Mention: Jonathan Franzen
Yeah, fine, we know Jonathan Franzen hates Twitter and thinks the rest of us are destructive, illiterate know-nothings for going anywhere near it. But isn’t that kind of trolling known to be the most singularly effective, attention-getting social media technique there is? So much so that you sort of wonder if this whole trumped-up controversy is just an elaborate, virtuosically executed publicity ruse? Whatever the intentions here, it’s pretty hard to deny that Franzen has a way of giving the people who pay attention to these things a lot of material to tweet about. One sort of shudders to think what we’d have to resort to if he ever stopped saying a bunch of crazy nonsense about things everyone else really likes. Best not to dwell on it.
Glad I made all my Franzen jokes before Yom Kippur.
— Jason Diamond (@imjasondiamond) September 13, 2013
the next time I see J Franz I’m going to say: “Twitter is for jokes. You love jokes!!!” then I guess just run away
— Emily Gould (@EmilyGould) September 14, 2013
wherever he is, one thing is clear: jonathan franzen is listening to “it’s five o’clock somewhere” right now. http://t.co/AxoYyH1yYw
— Alex Shephard (@alex_shephard) September 13, 2013
Virginia K. Smith tweets semi-literate things @vksmith.