Archive for May, 2009

Twitter & the WORD

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

I’ve been experimenting with Twitter, essentially twitting to announce what the WORD writers are publishing, such as covering the PEN festival this year or Julia Porfido’s “Children of the Night.” As I say, it’s an experiment.

But lately when I’m checking on the latest of the WORD’s new followers, I get this whacky owl logo, saying, “Sorry, the account you were headed to has been suspended due to strange activity. Mosey along now, nothing to see here.” A few days ago, the WORD got three in a row.

So, I wonder.

Anyway, Twitting is an experiment.

PEN Update: Hannah Levine Scores

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

The PEN May 2, Event, The PEN Cabaret, featuring Laurie Anderson, Carrie Brownstein, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Patricia Clarckson, Steve Connell, David Conrad, Mark Z. Danielewski, James Franco, Peter Hirsch, Nick Laird, Walter Mosley, Parker Posey, Lou Reed, Sekou and Sean Wilsey, sold out weeks ago. But WORD writer Hannah Levine, who works for the Hunter Envoy as its Entertainment Editor and who blogs at  My Soul Is a Butterfly, had been for several weeks feverishly hoping as well as feverishly persisting to get access even though we guessed the odds were a 1,000 to one.

I got this email from her last night: “I am ecstatically happy.”

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