Jay Griffiths on forests of the mind.

21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels, some more successfully than others.

So be straight and white and male and old, maybe grow a big bushy beard. And always hold your head or face in your author photos, that helps you sell 10,000 extra copies per book. Blue covers are better. People are always asking for ‘that book with the blue cover’. Are you writing all this down? How to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.