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  Fake Cormac McCarthy Interviewed at The Atlantic Wire

  2727 readersThe Atlantic Wire has posted an interview with Michael Crossan, the aspiring writer from Scotland who briefly fooled the Twittersphere by pretending to be novelist Cormac McCarthy. As we reported last week, the fake account convinced hundreds of Twitter users, even managing to fool a Twitter executive before the account was suspended. In both those links,

• Cormac McCarthy Did Not Join Twitter

  4268 readersNot to worry, @sarahw, he doesn’t own a computer; we’ve verified the @CormacCMcCarthy handle is not the real deal. — Vintage & Anchor (@VintageAnchor) January 23, 2012 This morning a Twitter impersonator made waves online, pretending to be novelist Cormac McCarthy. While the laconic writer would be a perfect fit for Twitter, the Vintage Anchor Twitter feed

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  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Amazon Deal & Art of Letter Writing: Top Stories of the Week

  6029 readersFor your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week, including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s shocking news about Amazon, a fake Cormac McCarthy Twitter account and  Jack Gantos‘ Newbery Medal winning novel (pictured). Click here to sign up for GalleyCat’s daily email newsletter, getting all our publishing

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  What If Cormac McCarthy Was on Yelp?

  6273 readersLaughing Squid contributing editor EDW Lynch created a satirical tribute to novelist Cormac McCarthy called “Yelping with Cormac.” The blog answers the hypothetical question: “What if Cor­mac McCarthy was on Yelp?” So far, the blog has posted reviews of business establishments based in the West Coast including Starbucks, Victoria’s Secret, two rounds on Taco Bell,  and The Apple

• Short Lived CondeElevator Twitter Account Causes a Stir

  5447 readersA Twitter account, called CondeElevator, caused a stir last week. The account quickly garnered over 30,000 followers and promised hot media gossip from employees of Conde Nast's magazines. The Twitter account had some funny tweets, but there really was no interesting gossip on it at all. The New York Times shared a few of the

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  WordPress Adds Feature for Embedding Tweets

  2741 readers Months ago, Twitter released a clunky tool called Blackbird Pie for embedding tweets in blog posts. Today WordPress has radically simplified and improved tweet embedding with a new feature, also named Twitter Blackbird Pie. Beginning today, WordPress.com users simply need to copy a tweet’s URL and paste it on a line by itself to embed it

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  When Is the Best Time To Post on Twitter?

  12962 readersWhen is the best time to post on Twitter? Writers, editors and publishers have asked that question for years. Now the KISSmetrics blog has a simple infographic breaking down the best statistical times to tweet. Our sibling blog SocialTimes recorded these key points from the statistics: “The best time to tweet is 5PM ET” “1 to 4 tweets

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  C.S. Lewis Gets Official Twitter Account

  7992 readersHarperCollins has created the official C.S. Lewis Twitter account. The Twitter feed will include famous quotes, future opportunities and news about his books. As of this writing, the account counts 6,775 followers. Currently, anybody who tweets about the Twitter feed will receive a free e-Booklet. On November 16th, Lewis’ stepson, Douglas Gresham, will be hosting a

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  Cormac McCarthy’s 17th Century Vocabulary

  2872 readersWhile reading Cormac McCarthy‘s stark and post-apocalyptic novel The Road, blogger Barry Weber couldn’t find a definition for the word “salitter” from the book. Weber did more research into McCarthy’s cosmic vocabulary, and discovered the word buried in a 17th Century mystical text. What’s the most exotic word you ever discovered in a novel? Here’s more from

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  Robert Sietsema Denies He Is Ruth Bourdain

  7546 readersToday a Star Tribune reporter claimed that Village Voice food critic Robert Sietsema has written the popular parody Ruth Bourdain Twitter feed for the last year. UPDATE: Sietsema has denied that he is the anonymous blogger: “It’s not me … I have enough of a handful doing my own tweets. Here’s more from the post: “Ruth