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Writers in real time-best author tweets

Friday is usually a slow news day in book world, spent trolling the blogroll and twitter feed for scoop. No awards. No scandals. Another e-reader? Yawn. Here’s what authors are saying in 140 characters:

Cory Doctorow: Nova Scotia program sends a bag of books to every family with a newborn incl info for local libraries #readingsummit

Margaret Atwood: G. Gibson BB Book of Beasts in bookstore Pet section! Pounce, Arrgh! Crunchmunch!Baad kitty

Douglas Coupland: I get the sensation real estate in some areas is about to hyperinflate the way it did in the 1970s. Oil and gold are too expensive

Shinan Govani: Friday mail brings the most handsome new Philip Roth. “Taut,” says the release about his work. All I can picture now is Roth doing pilates

Sina Queyras: Poetry would like to encounter writing about poetry that illuminates its folds, queries its blind spots and marvels at its ambitions #poetry

Ami McKay: http://twitpic.com/p80f4 – frosty in the bay this morning…brrrr.

Alain de Botton: Heathrow Writer in residence plants orchard to stop third runway: http://tinyurl.com/yemgrj9

Saleema Nawaz: Doh! I knew I’d forget to take the Hello Kitty band-aid off before my job interview.

Bret Easton Ellis: Brandon Flowers and Richard Butler singing “Pretty In Pink” together at The Hollywood Bowl last night=happiest I’ve been in a long time.

Elizabeth Wurtzel: A very inappropriate idea: Carrie Prejean and Levi Johnston would make a cute couple, and that would just about complete the circle of life.

Billeh Nickerson: Three days later and some streets are still boulevards of broken pumpkin dreams.

Lee Henderson: pump up the volume makes a great karaoke tune

George Murray: George Hamilton emailed me this morning to say “Now is the time to invest in Brazil.” I’m shaking w/ nerves from the brush w/ greatness