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  1. Starting tomorrow, @sarah_crown, @justine_jordan and I will tweet titles that narrowly missed Guardian first book prize longlist #books about 12 hours ago via TweetDeck
  2. Powerful David Grossman interview by Jonathan Freedland http://bit.ly/d0dnZA 3:18 AM Sep 4th via web
  3. @readysteadybook @@john_self Ok so will "meditation" do? No criticism intended. I like rants and polemics (+ the m word is twice as long) 9:14 AM Sep 3rd via TweetDeck in reply to readysteadybook
  4. Moving desks today. Adult equivalent of finding fluffy sweets at the bottom of satchel: lots of scuffed proofs + some literary lollipops 9:01 AM Sep 3rd via TweetDeck
  5. @john_self @readysteadybook Point taken. Dangerous word "rant" but so tempting, twitterwise. "Polemic" bust my letter count. 8:55 AM Sep 3rd via TweetDeck in reply to john_self
  6. Booker longlisted Tom McCarthy joins debate on Josipovici's Modernism rant @guardianreview . It began here: http://bit.ly/cWc2F7 #books 8:33 AM Sep 3rd via TweetDeck
  7. Good letters @guardianreview tomorrow about 2nd world war poetry and Daniel Swift's Bomber County. See also http://bit.ly/b40dmu #books 8:26 AM Sep 3rd via TweetDeck
  8. "Too many emotive adjectives + he could do with taking a red pen to his adverbs also" Adrian Mole reviews Tony Blair @guardianreview #books 8:21 AM Sep 3rd via TweetDeck
  9. Hve spent hours trying to explain my gripes abt editing without insulting all involved with Guardian prize longlist. @guardianreview Sat. 8:26 AM Sep 2nd via TweetDeck
  10. Editing incendiary review of Geoffrey Robertson's book abt the Pope and human rights. Sent it to lawyers. Verdict:" The Pope doesn't sue". 8:28 AM Sep 1st via TweetDeck
  11. Blair manages to make disquisition on "mistake" of letting Brown in as his successor into eulogy of Michael Heseltine. 6:53 AM Sep 1st via TweetDeck
  12. @NewWritingNorth Of course you could see the whole of Room as an allegory of pregnancy (down to the rotten teeth!) 6:19 AM Sep 1st via TweetDeck in reply to NewWritingNorth
  13. @NewWritingNorth The killer punch for me was that escape inevitably destroys the safe haven of Ma for J, even as it is setting her free, 6:15 AM Sep 1st via TweetDeck in reply to NewWritingNorth
  14. Just finished Emma Donoghue's Room. Don't know when I last read a novel that made me feel so weird. Kept bumping into things this morning 5:07 AM Sep 1st via TweetDeck
  15. Leafing through Blair book. Sticky red bookmark fell off somehere btwn page about spin and icecreams and one about Bush and Africa.... 4:04 AM Sep 1st via TweetDeck
  16. @roomynaqvy Am now following you, but wary abt adding too many. As Jack from Emma Donoghue's Room might say, too much persons make squeazy 3:57 AM Sep 1st via TweetDeck in reply to roomynaqvy
  17. Interesting piece from Stephen Guise about the problems facing commissioning editors http://bit.ly/baQlR8 Any thoughts? #books 3:51 AM Sep 1st via TweetDeck
  18. @nosycrow : There 's quite a widespread tendency to use inappropriate metaphor in dialogue , which seems to me a mark of inexperience#books. 8:59 AM Aug 27th via TweetDeck
  19. I've discovered some wonderful books - more than could fit on first book longlist - but am frustrated by the standard of editing #books 8:48 AM Aug 27th via TweetDeck
  20. I'm back from twitter purdah with longlist for Gdn first book awd. ttp://http://bit.ly/bxSrTa 8:36 AM Aug 27th via TweetDeck
  • Name Claire Armitstead
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  • Bio Claire Armitstead is the Guardian's literary editor
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