Everything Is Its Own Reward App
The Chimerist, a new website we’re loving, explores the app for Paul Madonna’s Everything Is Its Own Reward. “The places in these images are suspended in time, and the animations work to slow you down...
View ArticleAuthor Interview App
Ron Hogan is relaunching his Beatrice website as an app that will publish transcripts of feature-length interviews with authors, along with streaming video of highlights from each conversation. In...
View ArticleReading Rainbow: The Next Generation
If you or your kids have been near a TV in the past few decades, you probably went gaga for Reading Rainbow, the PBS children’s show hosted by LeVar Burton that encouraged young people to read.The show...
View ArticleFiction in the Digital Age
Serialized fiction is experiencing a resurgence, and we have technology to thank.Back in 2012, The Silent History brought the serialized novel to our iPhones (check out our interview with co-author...
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Whisper is an app that lets users make anonymous confessions. It’s brilliant and seems to be here to stay. Or stay as long as these things do.Pretty soon, writing on a laptop will be just another bit...
View ArticleCall Me, Ishmael
Already all the rage in Japan, the cell phone novel is slowly making its way to the US. The cell phone novel is a tweet-like fiction form: short bursts of serialized prose with chapters usually...
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As if you needed another reason to hate the Internet. Here you go, Luddite.Can a monkey own a picture? Wikipedia thinks so.Need to measure your soul? There is an app for that.Life at the edge of...
View ArticleHappy New Year, in Multiple Dimensions
To celebrate the New Year, Electric Literature is giving away an interactive short story app from acclaimed Israeli author Alex Epstein! True Legends is a multi-dimensional app exploring the story of a...
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Shame. The Internet. Monica Lewinsky.You spend hours killing people, but you don’t feel guilty.So much data. So few uses.All your stories in one little app.Reimagining incarceration.Your annoying...
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Space sex!The science of being twitterpated.iPads can’t fix everything.The religion of technology.Need to police the police? There’s an app for that.Related Posts:Weekly GeekeryThe Saturday Rumpus...
View ArticleThe Art and Science of Translation
The New York Times explores if automatic translation apps could put old-fashioned literary translators out of business.Related Posts:Fiction in the Digital AgeLike Peeping Over the Edge of the...
View ArticleThe Agatha Christie App
Last week, Agatha Christie Productions Ltd. And TELL Player Limited released an app that re-tells Christie’s 1930 short story collection, The Mysterious Mr. Quin, through live video, social media...
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(K)ink #4: Writing While Deviant: Dale Corvino
There’s evidence that D.H. Lawrence enjoyed an erotic power exchange relationship with his wife, that James Joyce was into scat (among other things), and that Oscar Wilde—well, most of us know what...
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Spelling is important even when you are stealing money.An app for your mental health.Google wants to blend physical and digital books.Music unites us.Related Posts:Weekly GeekeryWeekly GeekeryWeekly...
View ArticleYour Regularly Scheduled Gratification
At the Atlantic, Megan Garber explores the revival of the serial with the recent release of Belgravia, a serial novel-and-app from Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey.Related Posts:A Modern...
View ArticleSlow Reading
As much as many of us would love to read faster so that we could read more books, science points to speed reading as little more than efficient skimming, partially because the eye has a limited range...
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On Playing Games, Productivity, and Right Livelihood
One week last spring I said it out loud for the first time: “Sometimes I play so long, my fingers go numb.”I said it while straddling the man I loved. We were fully clothed, on my bed, in my newly...
View ArticleThe Swiping Game
Over at Lit Hub, Bridget Read discusses the gender politics of Tinder, the rise of the Single Woman, and how these phenomena have permeated recent nonfiction by women: It makes sense that independence...
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Comics as Critique: Talking with Ezra Claytan Daniels
Ezra Claytan Daniels is a writer and illustrator best known for his collaborative multimedia projects, which include video games, animations, feature documentaries, and graphic novels. In 2012 his...
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Spotlight: “Love Is Real”
On a Tuesday night in New York City, a girl meets the love of her life. Well—she doesn’t exactly meet him, but she can tell from his LinkedIn page and dating app bio that he is the one… ***
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