Alain Veinstein’s Twitter Diary Published as Novel

French poet and radio host Alain Veinstein has turned his Twitter feed into a novel, 'Alain Veinstein : jour après jour,' published by Grasset. The book compiles tweets posted from April 16, 2012 onward, using the 140-character constraint as a creative engine. Veinstein, introduced to Twitter by his daughter Paloma, found in the platform a liberating form for poetry, diary, correspondence, and narrative. The work captures daily life in Paris, especially the Montparnasse area, with overheard conversations, absurd situations, and recurring motifs like the Gaîté metro station. Characters include a vegetable seller, a theater cloakroom attendant, and his dog. Veinstein also reflects on his radio career, including his show 'Du jour au lendemain' on France Culture, which he jokes is played in a chicken coop to repel foxes. The novel integrates dreams, fantasies about retiring to raise peacocks, and meditations on love and language. Reviewer Olivier Renault emphasizes that the book should be read linearly, not browsed, to appreciate its rhapsodic narrative structure.