10 Writers to Follow on Twitter

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Yeah, I know, everybody's an author. Novelists, screenwriters, journalists, self-help gurus and social marketing experts all filling the void with words. But these 10 folks have a way with them, whether using 10 or 10,000.

"10 Writers to Follow on Twitter" is Part Seven of a series that I think just ended unless you have suggestions for what other kinds of Twittererers you want to know about:
I. 10 Musicians to Follow on Twitter
II. 10 Comedians to Follow on Twitter
III. 5 Star Trek Personalities to Follow on Twitter
IV. 10 Music Bloggers to Follow on Twitter
V. 10 Magazines to Follow on Twitter
VI. 10 Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter
VII. 10 Writers to Follow on Twitter

Here are the authors:

10. Bill Simmons - sportsguy33
The most insightful sports writer around.
Best recent tweet: Did Dwight Howard use Fed Ex or UPS to mail in tonight's performance? And why didn't he cover himself in bubble wrap?
Runner-up: Can someone explain to me how "don't mess with the zohan" is on blu-ray but "Boogie Nights" isn't? Life is cruel.

9. Neil Gaiman - neilhimself
Author of Coraline, The Graveyard Book and the Sandman comic series.
Best recent tweet: If you go to the @persiankiwi page and read it through it's like an apocalyptic novel played out in tweets. Also follow him #iranelection .
Runner-up: Just had to google the title of a story of mine to make sure I had it right in an introduction (I didn't). No more 16 word titles. #mefail

8. Malcolm Gladwell - gladwell
Author of The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers could charge $1,000 for every 140 characters he utters on the CEO circuit, but offers us the same nuggets of wisdom for free.
Best recent tweet: .....Rush Limbaugh's logic.
Runner-up: The weather in New York City this year, is as predictable as ........

7. Nicholas Kristof - nytimeskristof
Extraordinary journalist for the New York Times offers a knowing perspective on world news.
Best recent tweet: @yourdearleader O.K., I'll give you 3 pairs of elevator shoes and a Playboy Club membership, and you give me a visa and all your nukes?
Runner-up: North Korean tantrum: it says it will weaponize plutonium and build HEU nukes. Meanwhile, its hotel elevators don't work.

6. Whitney Matheson - popcandy
Entertainment blogger for (and best thing about) USA Today.
Best recent tweet: A guy just came up to me and said, "I have a brain in formaldehyde at home. You can get one a few blocks away for $1,000."
Runner-up: At a wedding reception eating my weight in cheese grits and watching the band play a Hall and Oates medley (really!).

5. Sasha Frere-Jones - sashafrerejones
Music critic for The New Yorker is unsurprisingly interested in much more than music.
Best recent tweet: Distracting myself from apocalypse pt. 78 with Ida Maria @ Bell House. Oh my god indeed.
Runner-up: In 2009, Radiohead would have been dropped.

4. Diablo Cody - diablocody
Blogger, memoirist, and screenwriter on Juno, Cody is damn funny.
Best recent tweet: I feel like these Home Depot commercials are bullying me. "Do it yourself! Save money! Pick up a hammer, you slothful whore!"
Runner-up: I saw "Real Madrid" as a trending topic and thought it was a show about young, hip Spaniards picked to live in a house.

3. Augusten Burroughs - augusten
Burroughs wrote about his life in Running With Scissors and keeps writing about it on Twitter .
Best recent tweet: i cried in public reading the thing. The new book, Home Safe, has a bird on it. But you can shoot a bird, so that's OK.
Runner-up: I worship elizabeth berg. thank god her new book doesn't have dippy flowers on the cover. the last one was girl-yellow and pink and...

2. Hollis Gillespie - hollisgillespie
Atlanta magazine humor columnist and Paste travel essayist (The Ugly American).
Best recent tweet: just finished watching Bridezilla marathon. I feel like my brain has been raped.
Runner-up: PONDERS DEAD PAINTERS, BOOT CAMP AND DISEASED BOVINES: http://bit.ly/vrFPC

1. Chris Anderson - chr1sa
Wired editor.
Best recent tweet: Reminded of the best answer Jeff Immelt ever gave me in an interview. What in GE R&D was he most excited about? A: The "virtual colonoscopy"
Runner-up: Talk about trading analog dollars for digital pennies. Craigslist made 1 cent for every dollar it took from newspapers: http://bit.ly/PNdyW

Let me know who else is worth following in the comments. I'm on Twitter @ joshjackson.