October 29th, 2009 / 11:06 am
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Electric Literature in the NY Times.  Geez.

Rick Moody is doing a story over 3 days via Twitter. Incorporating technology into literature all willy-nilly is bad for literary innovation.

37 Comments

  1. davidpeak

      w/r/t the electric lit article: wtf

      also, because it’s mean week, i recently worked a flea market booth next to the elec. lit guys, or somebody affiliated with them, i don’t know, and i asked them some questions and they gave me rude, curt answers. later in the day i needed change and asked them to break a five and they said no.

      damn.

  2. davidpeak

      w/r/t the electric lit article: wtf

      also, because it’s mean week, i recently worked a flea market booth next to the elec. lit guys, or somebody affiliated with them, i don’t know, and i asked them some questions and they gave me rude, curt answers. later in the day i needed change and asked them to break a five and they said no.

      damn.

  3. Gene Morgan

      “I’d been waiting for someone to do something more interesting on the Internet with fiction,” said Mr. Cunningham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.

      LOLZZZZ

  4. Gene Morgan

      “I’d been waiting for someone to do something more interesting on the Internet with fiction,” said Mr. Cunningham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.

      LOLZZZZ

  5. Blake Butler

      man, exciting! :P

  6. Blake Butler

      man, exciting! :P

  7. davidpeak

      i feel like by the time the NYT gets around to writing about something, it’s already like grandpa’s dead foot skin. anyone catch their recent article about this “new” type of music called dubstep?

  8. davidpeak

      i feel like by the time the NYT gets around to writing about something, it’s already like grandpa’s dead foot skin. anyone catch their recent article about this “new” type of music called dubstep?

  9. Ben White

      How exactly does someone “come up with the idea of Twitter fiction after he fell in love with the new form.” ? In related news, I came up with the idea of the epic poem after thoroughly enjoying the work of Homer.

      It’s been around for literally two years. Whether or not you’d want to read someone tweeting a story every ten minutes for three straight days (which is what he’ll probably do) is another issue entirely.

  10. Ben White

      How exactly does someone “come up with the idea of Twitter fiction after he fell in love with the new form.” ? In related news, I came up with the idea of the epic poem after thoroughly enjoying the work of Homer.

      It’s been around for literally two years. Whether or not you’d want to read someone tweeting a story every ten minutes for three straight days (which is what he’ll probably do) is another issue entirely.

  11. davidpeak

      felix feneon’s “novels in three lines”

      bam

  12. davidpeak

      felix feneon’s “novels in three lines”

      bam

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  14. Shane Jones

      I’m going to start a writing blog!

  15. Shane Jones

      I’m going to start a writing blog!

  16. Ben White

      Sure. And Hemingway’s apocryphal six word story. But I mean, this exact same thing. Twitter and all. Already done, been done every day, for years. Even if you’re the first person to popularize something, you are not the creator. Meh.

  17. Ben White

      Sure. And Hemingway’s apocryphal six word story. But I mean, this exact same thing. Twitter and all. Already done, been done every day, for years. Even if you’re the first person to popularize something, you are not the creator. Meh.

  18. joseph

      Those guys look like the kind of people your significant other introduces you to in passing and then later on says “I made out with them briefly look two years ago” and for like 5 minutes you’re concerned because they seem more attractive, generally, than you, but really you know they don’t have much besides a pretty cool jacket or pants that seem to fit really well.

      Cunningham was probably really stoked when he got their acceptance letter/letter begging for submission.

  19. joseph

      Those guys look like the kind of people your significant other introduces you to in passing and then later on says “I made out with them briefly look two years ago” and for like 5 minutes you’re concerned because they seem more attractive, generally, than you, but really you know they don’t have much besides a pretty cool jacket or pants that seem to fit really well.

      Cunningham was probably really stoked when he got their acceptance letter/letter begging for submission.

  20. joseph

      Yeah, Gene, and where the fuck has Cunningham been? By “more interesting” does he mean “use my work”

      let’s go to the bar and drink ephimere, oh you don’t know it? it’s from Canada… and then let’s hit on your girlfriend. Our rent is really high. We publish a magazine.

      fuck.

  21. joseph

      Yeah, Gene, and where the fuck has Cunningham been? By “more interesting” does he mean “use my work”

      let’s go to the bar and drink ephimere, oh you don’t know it? it’s from Canada… and then let’s hit on your girlfriend. Our rent is really high. We publish a magazine.

      fuck.

  22. Tim Jones-Yelvington

      Electric Cliterature #oneletteroffliterarymagazines

  23. Tim Jones-Yelvington

      Electric Cliterature #oneletteroffliterarymagazines

  24. mike

      answer: no

  25. mike

      answer: no

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  28. mike

      speaking of “electric literature” will somebody please tell me some damn places that accept hypertext fiction

  29. mike

      speaking of “electric literature” will somebody please tell me some damn places that accept hypertext fiction

  30. John Dermot Woods

      Action Yes.

  31. John Dermot Woods

      Action Yes.

  32. Matthew Simmons

      “In its first two issues, this year, the magazine showcased some of the country’s best writers — Michael Cunningham, Colson Whitehead, Lydia Davis, Jim Shepard — and created the kind of buzz that is a marketer’s dream.”

      There is not a marketer alive who dreams of trying to sell a literary journal to the public. Not one. Ever.

  33. Matthew Simmons

      “In its first two issues, this year, the magazine showcased some of the country’s best writers — Michael Cunningham, Colson Whitehead, Lydia Davis, Jim Shepard — and created the kind of buzz that is a marketer’s dream.”

      There is not a marketer alive who dreams of trying to sell a literary journal to the public. Not one. Ever.

  34. Andy Hunter

      Really? I have no idea how/why that happened. That whole flea market thing was an initiative to get indie presses together, support each other, and build community. Tables were staffed by unpaid volunteers (including us). I sat there many times, and sold many titles – from A Public Space to Shoplifting at American Apparel to Ugly Duckling Presse chapbooks – talking them all up and being friendly to all who approached. If someone was rude and/or refused to give you change, it was totally against the spirit and point of the whole enterprise.

  35. Andy Hunter

      Really? I have no idea how/why that happened. That whole flea market thing was an initiative to get indie presses together, support each other, and build community. Tables were staffed by unpaid volunteers (including us). I sat there many times, and sold many titles – from A Public Space to Shoplifting at American Apparel to Ugly Duckling Presse chapbooks – talking them all up and being friendly to all who approached. If someone was rude and/or refused to give you change, it was totally against the spirit and point of the whole enterprise.

  36. davidpeak

      Andy,

      from everything I saw over the handful of times I worked the flea market, it definitely seemed like your table was doing a good job talking to the shoppers, and you had a good selection of journals and books.

      I don’t know, maybe I caught one of your volunteers on a bad day. And maybe he really didn’t have five singles. It had been raining all morning and it was slow.

  37. davidpeak

      Andy,

      from everything I saw over the handful of times I worked the flea market, it definitely seemed like your table was doing a good job talking to the shoppers, and you had a good selection of journals and books.

      I don’t know, maybe I caught one of your volunteers on a bad day. And maybe he really didn’t have five singles. It had been raining all morning and it was slow.