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Hell is proud of its perfect model of a market-driven health care system. 8:08 AM Nov 10th from web
Hell live on Facebook: Tomorrow (Tuesday) at noon, Eastern Time, I'm doing a live chat at Chauncey's Book Club, run by estimable C. Mabe. 11:42 AM Nov 9th from web
Sarah Palin lives alone, talks nonstop to herself, unable to grasp her own syntax, believes she can see heaven from her window. It's Russia. 3:52 PM Nov 1st from web
Lost voice in Texas: must talk loud for sound; still words vanish as mouth moves. I sound like drunken stroke victim suspected of swine flu 8:48 AM Oct 31st from web
A host’s cat’s allergens; a bum PA system in a large hall; being sociable with 12 in a noisy restaurant: you tour on & your voice doesn’t 6:59 PM Oct 30th from web
The guys who slew all in Midian & Bashan & Heshbon & Gezer & Libnah etc. over who is God have new faith: the top guys are somewhere here too 10:07 AM Oct 21st from web
On Hell's book tour you sign your first Kindle & you know that to love this thing or to hate it would be easy. The torture is this ambiguity 8:41 AM Oct 16th from Tweetie
Childhood lost: chewing Teaberry gum. Childhood kept: chewing your nails, furiously, to the quick, afraid someone will see. They will. 5:34 PM Oct 14th from web
A sadly lost past: she the future reporter, YA in Fifties: on Sat. night the sound of metal wheels of paperboy’s cart with the Sunday paper 9:12 AM Oct 9th from Tweetie
Descending Picasso's stairs: her face is 6 cubist planes: Fernande & Eva & Olga & Marie-Thérèse & Dora & Françoise: the sex will not go well 7:28 AM Oct 2nd from web
At the signing: a well-meaning fan with a homonymic typo in my previous book: it's Hell not being able to fix it, a hotter Hell knowing it 11:36 AM Sep 25th from web
Telemarketers & phone-sex workers are one here, calling endlessly, selling their own body parts. Handling & shipping is the tough part 8:21 AM Sep 22nd from web
On radio: you must listen & are always shocked at your voice. If I don’t know my own deficient voice, what else don’t I know about myself? 10:16 AM Sep 16th from web
At Hell’s booksigning table: everyone before you is vaguely, namelessly familiar. They each present your book & simply say, Sign it to me 9:47 AM Sep 14th from web
You pass B&N, drop in, offer to sign your books. Sure, shrugs asst. mgr. You do & bring them to her. She says, Will that be cash or charge? 12:32 PM Sep 11th from web
On Hell’s author tour all readers who bring your books to sign have only previous titles. For the new one, they will wait for the remainder 10:25 AM Sep 10th from web
The VC dug tunnels, quaked within the earth at bombfall. Here, they dig & dig & find, digging upward, peasants they killed who chose no side 9:32 AM Sep 9th from web
In Nam, the “mad minute”: spooked, all shot wildly into dark. Here, vets live the mad minute, firing into the dark, hitting only themselves 9:32 AM Sep 9th from web
On Hell’s book tour: Part 1: you find your hometown Borders has stocked two copies. Part 2: it strikes you that both copies are still there 10:41 AM Sep 7th from web
Zero Club be damned: angels showed up & were wonderfully responsive to the nuances of Hell. All worries assuaged. Satan will make me pay 6:22 PM Sep 6th from web

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Bio Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler’s new novel, Hell, forthcoming on Sept. 1, chronicles that very place: these are the latest tweets from the inferno.