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| Tuesday Jun 6, 2006 | A very odd (and underexplained)
three-dimensional summary of the plot
of Fight Club, using Lego. to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Dec 3, 2005 | Magazine Publishers of America present
some clever (and not-so-clever)
magazine covers from the future. to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jun 11, 2005 | In 1951(ish), Tolkien wrote a letter to Milton Waldman expressing his motivations for writing The Lord of the Rings: "I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama." He longed to create a living myth; one which continued to flower under the care of many gardeners. When George Lucas created Star Wars, did he imagine such skillfully-crafted, entertaining fanfilms about Storm Troopers, Boba Fett, Mara Jade, a Valley-girl Jedi, or fun, way-cool tales of the Jedi Knights, with moments that rival the prequels? Did Gene Roddenberry picture Starship Exeter, the U.S.S. Intrepid, or Hidden Frontier? Photoshop and cosplay empower even the impecunious to roll your own version of your favorite stories. As the "official" versions of the most influential stories of the 20th century wind down, they begin their evolution into living myth. to Literature by cricket |
| Monday Feb 21, 2005 | Longmire reimagines some
romance novel
titles based on their cover art.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Oct 24, 2004 | Lynne Cheney wrote a book. to Literature by roo |
| Friday May 21, 2004 | "Use your mouse to help Captain Underpants dodge the boogers." to Literature by yoyology |
| Thursday Mar 4, 2004 | "Those of you familiar with the Wraeththu world will be acquainted with the dangers and beauty of that world and its newly-evolved inhabitants. For those of you yet to share the pleasure, perhaps this glimpse into the domain of Wraeththu will fire your desire for more. If it does, there are a couple of ways you can still obtain the trilogy." to Literature by yoyology |
| Tuesday Feb 10, 2004 | Finally, an answer to that burning question of the ages: what were
the
odds against Hamlet
during
his sword fight
with Laertes (Act 5, Scene 2, Line 166). to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 14, 2003 | Writing a "normal" book is obviously difficult. But what if you took
pains to avoid a particular glyph or symbol?
Lipographic
writings , such as
La Disparation,
Gadsby,
and
A Void
satisfy this difficult authorial constraint, but can still
draw you in as works of art.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 7, 2003 | Bad fanfic is occasionally funny; really bad fanfic is a sign that perhaps the author ought to be hospitalized. to Literature by monde |
| Tuesday Feb 11, 2003 | Smoky-voiced, surrealistic storyteller Joe Frank's Web site is up and running. Care for an ear-filling RealPlayer hors d'oeuvre? to Literature by fatherdan |
| Wednesday Jan 29, 2003 | Most any children's librarian will tell you that Shel Silverstein is the most beloved writer of poems for children. Music buffs know him as the writer of great novelty songs for the likes of Johnny Cash and Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show. Carol, on the other hand, prefers to celebrate him as a well-rounded writer of all kinds of material for adults, much of which is unquestionably unsuitable for minors.
to Literature by yoyology |
| Monday Dec 2, 2002 | One of the more beautiful applications to draw on Project Gutenberg for source material, TextArc gives the reader a visual representation of the interrelationships of texts as it reads through, for example, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
TextArc's developer is offering a
special deal on microprinted Alice posters for loyal memepool readers. Enter "memepool.com" in the promotional code field on the purchase page for a $10 price break.
to Literature by yoyology |
| Tuesday Nov 26, 2002 | Some people might find a lexicon helpful while reading the Harry Potter books, but then there are those who really need help. to Literature by engelbot |
| Tuesday Nov 12, 2002 | Although
"lorem ipsum" is the typesetting industry's standard dummy text, other typolalia such as
etaoin shrdlu (i
the two leftmost rows
on a Linotype typsetting machine's
keyboard) and pangrams show up now and again, as well.
to Literature by joshua |
| Monday Oct 28, 2002 | "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
"From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the
tapeworm." "The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders." Edward Abbey
had some great one liners (and books). These and many more
are randomly available at the Edward Abbey Quote Index. to Literature by xrayjones |
| Sunday Sep 22, 2002 | Hankerin' for a fantasy world as imagination-stretching as Middle Earth, even if it's rough around the edges and maybe even slightly odd? Jennifer Diane Reitz's Unicorn Jelly comicstrip is cuter than Hello Kitty, more Wicca-friendly than Buffy, as wonderfully manga-inspired as Adam Warren, and better scifi than you-know-who. And how's this for endless stuff to geek out over? The Unicorn Jelly world codex, custom card game, a self-zooming animated map, forum, an .mp3 guide to UJ's language, fonts, stunning fan art, fanfic, alternate universe strips, Dungeons and Dragons stats for all the characters (though you'll doubtless prefer the Unicorn Jelly Role Playing Game system), and an original chess-like board game complete with a downloadable version for Windows. Confused? Scope the handy guide to understanding the strip on different levels grouped by fruit type. to Literature by cricket |
| Wednesday May 8, 2002 | People who obviously aren't fans of the movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's works are petitioning to change the name of the upcoming movie The Two Towers, claiming it is a dark reference to September 11, 2001. to Literature by isosceles |
| Sunday Apr 28, 2002 | Choose Your Own Adventure meets Samuel Beckett. The result: Waiting for Godot: The Interactive Adventure.
to Literature by isosceles |
| Friday Apr 19, 2002 | Books about pirates abound; some are strange, some are funny, and some are wildly inaccurate. good pirate humor is a little harder to find, though.
to Literature by caspian |
| Tuesday Apr 16, 2002 | What do you get when you combine the 10k run with the works of James Joyce? Why, the James Joyce Ramble, of course! |
| Tuesday Feb 12, 2002 | Newsflash for geeks: J.R.R. Tolkien didn't invent Modern Fantasy! He consciously followed in the footsteps of the genre's trailblazers: E.R. Eddison, Lord Dunsany, William Morris and George MacDonald. None of which answers the juiciest mystery raised by Lord of the Rings, namely "Is Frodo gay?" to Literature by cricket |
| Tuesday Jan 1, 2002 | Ever get the base crazies
? Or yearn for a frisco speedball?
Is a hippieflip more your style?
Maybe you need to do some market research.
Further information on these and other topics
Can Be Yours! to Literature by overload |
| Saturday Dec 22, 2001 | Crapped out on
classic sweet
but sticky
Christmas stories?
Cleanse your palate with the whiskey chaser prose of H.L.
Mencken, Mark Twain,
William S. Burroughs, David
Sedaris, and John
Waters. God
bless us, everyone. to Literature by fatherdan |
| Wednesday Dec 19, 2001 | Project Gutenberg: Good guys? or Bad Guys?
to Literature by keiths |
| Saturday Nov 17, 2001 | "The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony." ~William Shakespeare, Richard II, II.1.5-6
to Literature by highlyacidic |
| Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 | The Lair of the Marrow Monkey has particularly well designed flash fiction along with particularly pleasant sounds. to Literature by fool |
| Friday Oct 5, 2001 | What is your secret hobbit name you pale, sexless geek? to Literature by fatherdan |
| Monday Sep 3, 2001 | Choose your words carefully. Choose
your 100 words even more carefully at 100words.net,
an interesting experiment in e-literature.
to Literature by fatherdan |
| Sunday Aug 12, 2001 | It took over 600 years, but text has finally broken free of the bonds of the
printed page. The Electronic Literature
Organization explores the potential of text beyond mere ebooks. Check
out these
interesting examples
from their directory. to Literature by fatherdan |
| Friday Jul 6, 2001 | Want to memorize the digits of pi? Mike Keith makes it easy -- or at least entertaining -- with Cadaeic Cadenza, a mnemonic short story that encodes over 3,000 digits.
to Literature by sylvar |
| Saturday Jun 30, 2001 | Fantômas! Lord of Terror!
Fantômas!
Genius of Evil! Fantômas!
Darling of the Avant Garde! Fantômas!
Fantômas! FANTÔMAS! to Literature by fatherdan |
| Monday Jun 25, 2001 | If you like tracking dollar bills with Where's George?,
you'll want to try releasing and tracking your old books through BookCrossing. to Literature by tregoweth |
| Tuesday Jun 19, 2001 | making poetry with today's exciting news is headline haikus to Literature by dennis |
| Wednesday May 16, 2001 | May 25th is
Towel Day.
Carry a towel to remember author Douglas Adams. to Literature by moose |
| Tuesday Apr 24, 2001 | Geek Hard!! Fans of Star Trek, Forbidden Planet and the Alien films should check out A.E. Van Vogt's 1950 novel The Voyage of The Space Beagle, almost certainly the primary inspiration for all three and still a great read. Van Vogt's 1940 novel Slan created the basic format for almost all mutant stories that followed, in particular the idea of super-powered mutants banding together against human oppression. This led to Henry Kuttner's 1953 Mutant, which even without the bald telepaths would be the obvious source for the X-Men, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963. to Literature by cricket |
| Wednesday Apr 18, 2001 | Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Chabon's personal site has an excerpt from the winning novel, but also reveals Chabon's interests in Cthulhiana, television, the X-Men movie, and his own favorite reading. to Literature by fringehead |
| Sunday Apr 1, 2001 | In honor of National Poetry Month (in the U.S. and Canada), why don't you learn how to become a poet? If you're good enough, you can enter one of those contests. While you're there entering the contest, read some of the "greatest love poems ever" (*not recommended if you have a weak stomach.) Stop by The Original Bard's official website, which if he would perchance happen to see, he'd surely be rolling over in his graveth. Maybe you think that April is the cruelest month for poetry? Or you're one of those people who don't like to read poetry? Either way, don't forget to support starving artists - and get a free coffee mug!
to Literature by safronlwin |
| Wednesday Mar 28, 2001 | Griots, like Papa Susso, whom I heard sing at an event for Eritrean poetry, are storyteller-historian-singers who play a harplike gourd instrument called a kora or cora. Should you want your own kora, you can make one, substituting a cake tin for the difficult-to-find really big gourd.
to Literature by djinn |
| House of Leaves is what Blair Witch 2 could have been and should have been. If you're a promiscuous tattoo artist with a mother in the nuthouse. Or your sister is Poe. Welcome to the House of Leaves.
to Literature by lampbane |
| Wednesday Mar 21, 2001 | The
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
is about creating the worst possible opening sentence to a novel.
But most of the entries believe that "worst" means
"interminable".
Now,
Nanofiction
proves that
short
is beautiful.
Can we
combine
these concepts?
The
Lyttle Lytton Contest
challenges you to produce the ugly, the brutish, and the short
simultaneously:
the worst possible opening sentence of a novel in
25 words or less.
to Literature by belford |
| Friday Feb 23, 2001 | In this modern heyday of internet self publishing one should not overlook the valiant efforts, no matter how futile, of those who want to write children's books for the web, such as whowever is behind Thinky Mars Probe. Come. Join Thinky as he looks for mister snake, rides a camel, gazes on The Temple of Kukulcan, or hangs out with the little egrets.
to Literature by keith |
| Thursday Jan 25, 2001 | I want to marry a gay male poet. But not just any gay male poet; I want to marry Mark Doty or Regie Cabico. to Literature by djinn |
| The biannual People's Poetry Gathering will be held the weekend of March 30th-April 1st, 2000 in downtown Manhattan. And we have City Lore and Poets House to thank. to Literature by djinn |
| Wednesday Nov 29, 2000 | Shameful confession: I am addicted to reading other
people's journals. It helps satisfy my voyeuristic
tendencies. I think I was turned on to it by following
Kim Rollins' online diaries (as well as the subsequent
meltdown between her and Wil Shipley). It always fascinates me, too, to
see how quality of writing matters: some people can make what should be interesting seem
boring, and others can make the mundane seem vibrant.
While you can always cheap out and get a fix
of journaley goodness at Open Diary (contest: can you find mine?),
there is something special about stumbling upon a homepage with a journal
during an unrelated websearch. In that vein, I present
today's little diamond in the rough. And I didn't
even know Morrissey was still alive.
to Literature by peterb |
| Wednesday Nov 1, 2000 | Mournless yet grateful comic strip style tribute to the late sci-fi great Philip K. Dick. to Literature by skallas |
| Monday Oct 23, 2000 | Internet Text,
somewhere between the
razor
and the
edge. to Literature by goboro |
| Sunday Oct 1, 2000 | Chemistry and poetry: when science and art finally meet in The Periodic Table of Poetry!. Just don't get scared off by the gallium contribution. to Literature by wheezer |
| Thursday Aug 31, 2000 | For the prose enthusiast on the go: 54 word stories to Literature by wheezer |
| Friday Jul 14, 2000 | Lots of people in the United States have never
heard of Mervyn
Peake. He was an illustrator of
various
literary classics, but perhaps more importantly, he
authored a trilogy
of novels about the fantastic Castle Gormenghast and its
denizens, particularly
Titus,
the 77th Earl of Groan,
and the tormented, brooding villain
Steerpike.
I found out about this when I saw a preview
on BBC America
of their presentation of the BBC 4-part miniseries
presentation of the first two novels. It replays this weekend on BBC America,
so order your digital cable now, Yankees!
to Literature by sck |
| Sunday Jul 2, 2000 | Hey there, lonely indie boy. It's summertime and you're stuck in the office. Ready to fall in love? to Literature by aleph |
| Friday Jun 2, 2000 | WORD has some of the best content around; although ostensibly a .com company it boasts innovative web design and cool interactivity tricks, not to mention having great literary content from all sorts of writers. Go for SiSSYFiGHT, stay for Chicken Boy. to Literature by dnm |
| Friday May 5, 2000 | In the desert /
I saw a creature, naked, bestial, /
who, squatting upon the ground, /
Held his heart in his hands, /
And ate of it. /
I said, "Is it good, friend?" /
"It is bitter -- bitter," he answered; /
"But I like it /
Because it is bitter, /
And because it is my heart."
The poetry
of Stephen Crane.
to Literature by peterb |
| Monday Apr 17, 2000 | (bababadalgha raghtakami minarronnkonn bronntonnerr onntuonnthu nntrovarrhou nawnskawntoohooho ordenen thurnuk!): MP3's Of Finnegan's Wake By Some Japanese Guy Who Does His Own Drum Accompaniment.
Loudly.
to Literature by mpc |
| Tuesday Apr 4, 2000 | And to round out this evening's symposium, here's a very nice page devoted to that Eliot of Emmenthal, the Milton of Mozzarella, Cheddar's own Chaucer: James McIntyre, author of the immortal Ode On The Mammoth Cheese! to Literature by mpc |
| One of the unintentionally funniest poets in American history, a favorite of Mark Twain, was Julia A. Moore (1847-1920), "The Sweet Singer Of Michigan" (self-described, I believe). She wrote on many varied topics, mostly involving death: by plagues, disasters, usually involving adorable children with odd names, and with circumstances as unusual aschoking on a piece of beef. Of course, in this era somebody would provide a web based archive of her work.
to Literature by mpc |
| Anytime I'm feeling depressed and lonely, I just read some bad gothic poetry and that CHEERS ME RIGHT UP. to Literature by mpc |
| Wednesday Mar 15, 2000 | Death Row is considered "the leading reference guide on capital punishment for legal professionals, correctional facility personnel, law enforcement agencies, media researchers, special interest organizations and law school faculty and students." It's published yearly. Oh, and it's online too. Read such eye-openers as the History of Execution Methods, 100 Years of the Death Penalty or take the Serial Killer Profile Quiz and see if you have bigger problems than you thought. to Literature by mrradon |
| Tuesday Feb 29, 2000 | Elements of Phyle is a handy guide to proper grammar, spelling, and style for writing X-Files fan fiction. to Literature by keith |
| Monday Feb 21, 2000 | A fundamental piece of Irish literature, the Táin Bó Cualgne (Cattle Raid Of Cooley),
available in both saxon and gaelige. Along with a handy pronunciation guide for those who find Irish orthography to be less than intuitively obvious. to Literature by mpc |
| Sunday Feb 20, 2000 | Sir, if the words you've read of late have all been fill'd with loath and spite, know ye that there be brighter fare: Laugh hard and look long into Light. to Literature by goboro |
| Monday Feb 7, 2000 | Forget that weenie teenage angst poetry, if you want death poetry, nobody beats The Japanese to Literature by mpc |
| Wednesday Feb 2, 2000 | The Limerick packs laughs anatomical /
Into space that is quite economical /
But the good ones I've seen /
So seldom are clean /
And the clean ones so seldom are comical to Literature by stimpy |
| Tuesday Feb 1, 2000 | Rivertrout's mission: to keep the passion of written missives alive and enhanced in the age of the Web. to Literature by eclipse |
| Thursday Jan 27, 2000 | Where no haiku poet has gone before: SciFaiku, a five-year-old literary movement that "packs all the human insight, technology, and vision of the future into a few poignant lines." to Literature by rogers |
| Wednesday Jan 26, 2000 | Everybody knows Marlowe's Elizabethan Pick-Up Line, A Passionate Shepherd To His Love And Raleigh's acerbic The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd. What's not as well known is that John Donne also wrote a reply, about another masculine pasttime.
to Literature by mpc |
| Tuesday Jan 25, 2000 |
The Pigs of Wrath is part Grapes of Wrath, part
Three Little Pigs, and part Animal Farm.
to Literature by keith |
| Monday Jan 24, 2000 | Bartleby.com has long been a valuable source of quotations and poetry. Now they have expanded their offerings, with the 18-volume Cambridge History of English and American Literature. to Literature by jacquez |
| Monday Jan 17, 2000 | Happy birthday, Dr. King. (Okay, so it's late, blame Congress.) to Literature by arkuat |
| Saturday Jan 8, 2000 | I'm not too big on the bible but I really like some parts of this bible site, specifically the little treatises on grammar and writing style, even if the 'musings' only serve to promote the company's own translation... to Literature by djinn |
| Thursday Jan 6, 2000 | I love spicing up the comments in my programs with some good quotations. to Literature by keith |
| Saturday Dec 25, 1999 | One can be disabused of the notion that the Brothers Grimm and Walt Disney had the fairytale market cornered by reading Magic Tales of Mexico. For instance, there's a great many similarities between "Blanca Flor" and another famous story just about all children have read, have had read to them, or have at least seen on video. These pages contain both the original Spanish versions and the English translations, with assorted cultural notes. to Literature by monde |
| Monday Dec 13, 1999 | Creative Nonfiction may seem an odd genre at first blush, but this little corner of literature supports a Literary Journal, excellent MFA programs at The University of Pittsburgh and Goucher College, and a webring, for starters. to Literature by goboro |
| Saturday Nov 13, 1999 | Read
news from around the world, including
The Islander (Ascension Island),
the Rapa Nui News,
the
Tonga Times
and The
Seychelles Nation.
to Literature by nelson |
| Thursday Nov 11, 1999 | For the new writer who wants to learn how to make money, there is no greater resource than Vinnie Dapikowicz's Writing Guide. Includes valuable advice, as well as a glossary of terms for new writers.
to Literature by jacquez |
| Sunday Oct 24, 1999 | Two authors who don't get read enough today, the eminently quotable G.K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc, the only man to every write a drinking song about the Pelagian Heresy to Literature by mpc |
| Wednesday Oct 6, 1999 | Go read
Neil Gaiman's
24-hour comic book,
Being An Account Of The Life And Death Of Emperor
Heliogabolus. to Literature by keith |
| Monday Oct 4, 1999 | Oh boy oh boy! William Gibson's got
a new book out! to Literature by sburke |
| Wednesday Sep 22, 1999 | MST3K fanfic? It's true. Watch them take on the worst short story ever : THE EYE OF ARGON. to Literature by riffraff |
| Sunday Sep 12, 1999 | If you've ever wondered about the origin of the word "Masochism", this web page is all about it. The short version is that it's named after Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, the author of Venus in Furs, which I highly recommend, and of which the full text can be found here. to Literature by keith |
| Saturday Sep 11, 1999 | They tell me you are wicked and I believe them. to Literature by sburke |
| Monday Aug 23, 1999 | Who
is John Galt, and
what the hell
is he doing in my computer?
to Literature by belford |
| Thursday Aug 19, 1999 | Several famous science fiction authors maintain their own homepages
(which include free stories and essays):
Greg Egan,
Robert Sawyer, and
David Brin, to name a few.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Everyone knows about
Project Gutenberg, but there are
several less-well-known
sites dedicated to distributing free text.
Berkeley's
Alex Catalogue
is a good place to start, as is
Bibliomania and, of course,
Carnegie Mellon's own
On-Line Books Page.
If you're feeling like sticking it to
The Man, then also check out
Banned
Books On-Line, also at CMU.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 2, 1999 | Pemberley.com is "Your haven in a world programmed to misunderstand obsession with things Austen." The site contains a Jane Austen information page, info about the various adaptations of her novels, and electronic copies of her works. to Literature by machita |
| Tuesday Jul 20, 1999 | If you like to read literature as opposed to fiction (or if you find
you
must, what with educational responsibilities) I heartily recommend
W. W. Norton's series of
Critical Editions, each complete with an (!)
authoritative version of the text, critical writings to further
your understanding, and enough background and supplementary
materials to make it all make sense in the first place. to Literature by goboro |
| Monday Jul 5, 1999 | From the Cure to Insomnia department comes the
International Journal of Grey
Literature, which is devoted to the study of text created by government
agencies.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jun 28, 1999 | The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a yearly whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels. "It was a dark and stormy night..."
to Literature by joshua |
| Thursday Jun 24, 1999 | When I can't remember the difference between Mnemnosyne and Mneme, I turn to the wonderful Encyclopedia Mythica. to Literature by peterb |
| Wednesday May 19, 1999 | The Electronic Text Center at the university of Virginia contains a staggering amount of free, online, English documents. Books, newspapers, manuscripts from the past several hundred years in SGML format. to Literature by nyarl |
| Thursday May 13, 1999 | The Voynich manuscript
is a mysterious medeival text, written in an unknown script in an
undetermined language.
to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 7, 1999 | In pre-Giuliani days, Xander Mellish
used to write up the first page of her short stories
and plaster them on New York City telephone poles, in laundromats,
and wherever she felt like it. Now, however, she puts them on a
great website where you can read without having to go outside. to Literature by crikey |
| Monday Apr 5, 1999 | She Hates My Futon. Online novella for when you've got a few hours to spare.
to Literature by faisal |
| Friday Mar 26, 1999 | Rare books...reproduced
as Acrobat files! to Literature by tregoweth |
| Thursday Mar 18, 1999 | A pretty comprehensive site dedicated to Italian author Italo Calvino (1923-1985), author of If on a winter's night a traveler..., Invisible Cities, Cosmicomics, and others.
to Literature by crikey |
| Wednesday Mar 17, 1999 | So I'm in a Lovecraftian mood. Be sure to check out
the reader's guide to the Cthulhu Mythos,
as well as the thoroughly evil Lovecraft Tarot.
to Literature by peterb |
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