MONDAY PICK | Get lit-er on Twitter

It’s a slow night on the local literary scene, so go looking for literature in a seemingly hopeless place: the Internet. Twitter is a good place to learn about local lit via the accounts of Rain Taxi Review of Books, Paper Darts, The Loft Literary Center, Graywolf Press, Coffee House Press, Milkweed Editions, Magers & Quinn, Common Good Books, BirchBark Books, and of course the Daily Planet—but writers are increasingly realizing that Twitter is writing, and using it as a venue of personal expression. A couple of good lists to start picking and choosing talented writers from are @altlitgossip’s list of “alt lit players”—young writers who speak Internet as a native tongue—and, if the alt-litsters are a little too absurd for you, Tracy Marquez’s list of underrated comic tweeters.