Literary Twitterati: Alice Munro immortalised in silver

Our weekly round-up of recent literary happenings on Twitter

10 books that taught me to write <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FrogMusic&amp;src=hash">#FrogMusic</a>: <a href="http://t.co/Nw1bP9pySF">http://t.co/Nw1bP9pySF</a>

Alice Munro immortalised on Canadian currency - acclaimed author appears on a silver collector's coin <a href="http://t.co/Gh0riB6Ax5">http://t.co/Gh0riB6Ax5</a>

Flannery O'Connor, who would've been 89 today, on the realism at the heart of fiction and the reader's blind spots <a href="http://t.co/Xz3R1VLTra">http://t.co/Xz3R1VLTra</a>

Hear Paula Meehan, Dermot Bolger & Enda Wyley bring poetry to life in this <a href="https://twitter.com/BryanJOBrien">@BryanJOBrien</a> feature on <a href="https://twitter.com/IrishTimes">@IrishTimes</a>. <a href="http://t.co/UWbGCTrsxK">http://t.co/UWbGCTrsxK</a>

It looks like Paddy is ignoring them! <a href="http://t.co/W1XrfZXRR9">pic.twitter.com/W1XrfZXRR9</a>

Defy Chris Grayling and send a book to a UK prisoner by concealing it inside a nail file. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GraylingsLaw&amp;src=hash">#GraylingsLaw</a>

Author Colum McCann reads a limerick! <a href="http://t.co/3kCICuN9Fc">http://t.co/3kCICuN9Fc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23limerick&amp;src=hash">#limerick</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23limerickcityofculture&amp;src=hash">#limerickcityofculture</a>

i always find it hard to imagine that jane austen, vikings & dinosaurs all happened in colour. <a href="https://twitter.com/LiteraryMermaid">@LiteraryMermaid</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/theretronaut">@theretronaut</a>

<a href="https://twitter.com/stingingfly">@stingingfly</a> I like this: "Writing practically demands that one exhibit a high degree of selfishness." Art too.

Jay Griffiths' 'A Love Letter from a Stray Moon' is an extraordinary book: rich, passionate, uncompromising. I was bowled over by it.