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Check out this NYTimes article on the Electric Literature Magazine: http://bit.ly/1YZDW 22 days ago |
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Inspired @ElectricLit "revitalizes the short story in the age of the short attention span." @NYTimes article: http://bit.ly/2DTWup 24 days ago |
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Serving Literature by the Tweet - Electric Literature - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/books/28electric.html 25 days ago |
Electric Literature
Bookninja —
... have made the publicity big time with a profile in the NYT . Their formula for success? They let you have good authors and stories your way. The brains behind Electric Literature are Andy Hunter, 38, and Scott Lindenbaum, 26, writers who met in 2006 at Brooklyn College’s M.F.A. program in fiction writing. From an office of roughly 300 square feet in an industrial building between the Dumbo and Fort Greene neighborhoods, they added an iPhone application in July, a month after their first issue. “Everyone is reading short-form text,” said Mr. Hunter, the editor in ...
Covering Their Bases
Chris Hurst —
The founders of Electric Literature, a new quarterly literary magazine, seek nothing less than to revitalize the short story in the age of the short attention span. To do so, they allow readers to enjoy the magazine any way they like: on paper, Kindle, e-book, iPhone and, starting next month, as an audiobook. YouTube videos feature collaborations among their writers and visual artists and musicians. Starting next month, Rick Moody will tweet a story over three days. ...
Macmillan Cuts E-book Royalties, Munro Reveals Cancer Fight, and More
Poets & Writers - From Inspiration to Publication —
... project has been concluded, the seventy-five-cent barbecue sauce jar that inspired the winning story has been put up for auction on eBay, and the real test is underway. Author Rick Moody will spend three days next month “tweeting” a story for the new multi-format quarterly Electric Literature , which is already garnering kudos for its slick use of new media ( New York Times ). Just days after a similar announcement by his counterpart at Amazon, Barnes & Noble CEO Steve Riggio told investors that the Nook e-reader is now the company’s fastest selling item ( ...
OMNIVORE: Any way they like
bookforum.com —
... raped and impregnated by her abusive father? Readers can enjoy Electric Literature , a new quarterly literary magazine , any way they like: on paper, Kindle, e-book, iPhone and, starting next month, as an audiobook. Counterinsurgency is at least 50 percent civilian — so where have all the ...
Electric Literature::no. 2
A Compulsive Reader —
... Even though Electric Literature has hit the big time with a write-up in the New York Times, editor Andy Hunter has not forgotten about the little guy over here in this corner and made sure to get me a copy of the hot-off-the-presses second issue. ...
Thursday Thoughts
Literary Kicks —
... a new work by Rick Moody. I have watched a few "tweeted novels" fly by, usually in disjointed reverse-chronological sentence fragments that repel any attempt at reading. Will these apparently clued-in folks find the formula that works? Hint: we write our tweets forward, but we read them backwards. Hint #2: if you're tweeting a novel and you can't make your sentences work at 140 characters or less, you're really not tweeting a novel. 6. I like these classic British rock ...
