Ice Storm Author to Tweet Short Story

140-character limit 'like haiku,' Moody finds

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 30, 2009 4:34 PM CST

(Newser) – Starting tomorrow, Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm, will release a short story told over 153 tweets—one an hour for 3 days. The Wall Street Journal asked Moody what's exciting about using Twitter for literature:

After his wife opened an account for him:

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