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2002: a Palindrome Story in 2002 Words | Nick Montfort & William Gillespie | A collaboratively-authored narrative palindrome | 2002 | A book designed by Ingrid Ankerson with plates by Shelley Jackson | The palindrome is online with extensive notes | /2002 | |
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Drawn Inward | Mike Maguire | Poetry, Palindromes, Word Palindromes, Redividers, Poems About Trains | 2003 | Book designed by Nick Montfort | HTML | /drawn inward |
Deep Speed |
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Fourier Series | Joshua Corey | A poetry cycle | 2005 | A beautiful book with a spine and French Revolution folds | PDF, MP3, Flash | /fourier series |
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Letter to Lamont | William Gillespie | Fiction | 2005 | A green paperback | HTML | /letter to lamont |
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The Story That Teaches You How To Write It | William Gillespie | Simultaneous essay and story: theory and practice of experimental fiction | 2005 | A purple book with a spine | PDF excerpt | /don quixote |
Teaches you how to write it |
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Johnny Werd | Q. Synopsis | A novel | 1991-2004 | A novel paperback and hardback, cover by Andrew Byrom | /werd | Pure entertainment | |
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Table of Forms | Dominique Fitzpatrick-O'Dinn | An exploration of new poetic form & constraint-driven literature | 1996-2006 | A blue paperback and hardback | HTML | /table | Teaches you how to write it |
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Dirk Stratton | A story about the most cerebral art theft of the Twentieth Century | 2001 | Limited signed edition of 26 copies | HTML | /with hidden noise |
Don't try this at home |
Spineless Books |
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11, 112, 006, 825, 558, 016 Sonnets | William Gillespie & William Shakespeare | 11, 112, 006, 825, 558, 016 Sonnets | 1999 | After Queneau's | CGI | Dynamic | |
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20-Consonant Poetry | You | A form of serial poetry, based on 12-tone music | 1993-? | Has to happen | /20 | Jade Quill | |
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5 Writers on September 11, 2002 | Raymond Federman, Joe Futrelle, Kurt Heintz, Dirk Stratton, Chandra Vega | Reflections on terrorism | 2002 | Poetry + MP3s | /911 | ||
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Arrangement for Scrap Metal | Tom Grothus | Performance | 2001 | Score and notes | /grothus | Perform | |
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The Assassination of Roy's Suspended Disbelief | Q.Synopsis | collage novel | 1990 | Xerox edition unavailable on Ebay | HTML | /roy | |
| Black Mountain Matrix | Robert Creeley's class at Brown | archive | 2004 | HTML | /black mountain |
Study | ||
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Book Views | Views on books | 2002-? | HTML | /book views |
Read | ||
| Car Alarms of Providence | Music with kinetic poetry | 2003 | Flash | /providence caralarms |
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Clowns of War | Q. Synopsis | Play | 1991 | Script | /clowns of war |
Perform | |
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Cybernetics of Cybernetics | Ashby, Bateson, Beer, Brün, Hardin, Maturana, McCulloch, Pask, Powers, von Foerster, Wiener, et al. | Scholarly anthology | 1975 | Hardback, paperback | /cybernetics /cybernetics | Book includes Parabook & Metabook | |
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Eclectic Seizure | Eclectic Seizure Radio Theater Collective. | Radio show | 1990-? | /eclectic seizure |
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The Ed Report | Ed Commission | Serial fiction for the Web | 2000 | Probably illegal | HTML | edreport.com | |
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Mark Enslin | /enslin | ||||||
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The Executor | William Gillespie and Nick Montfort | Kinetic fiction | 2005 | Java / Processing | /executor | ||
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Federman Collection | Raymond Federman | Folk tale | 2002 | The Story of the Sparrow: limited edition of 26 copies signed by Federman | The Federman Collection | /namredef | Listen to Federman |
| Texts by Alain Frontier / Translations by Raymond Federman | Alain Frontier, Raymond Federman | 2002 | ||||||
| Gaston: The Rejected Editor | Raymond Federman | And you thought you were bitter | Friday, 1995 | |||||
| Fear Hierarchy | Jan Pettit | poem | 2003 | |||||
| Interview with Godot | Raymond Federman | interview with a famous character | 2002 | |||||
| My Tor-Mentor | Raymond Federman | 16 July 1942 | a riddle | |||||
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Flat Books | Rick Burkhardt & Andy Gricevich | Flat books | 2002-? | Limited Edition oddities | /flat books |
Mail art | |
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From the Editors' Skulls | -Ed. | Rants | 2002-? | HTML | /skull | ||
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Ernest Vincent Wright | A Novel of Over 50,000 Words Without the Letter "E" | 1939 | Happened once, will happen again | HTML | /gadsby | Write a lipogram | |
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Good Scissors | Ingrid Ankerson | Poetry | 2001 | An award-winning book of poetry | Excerpts online | /good scissors |
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The Help File | Nick Montfort | Electronic magical self-help realism | 1999 | Download | /help file |
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Michael Holloway | Nonsequitur books & CDs | /holloway | Listen | ||||
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The Hunting of the Snark | Lewis Carroll | Epic poem | HTML | /snark | |||
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HTML | /interviews | ||||||
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Invisible Literature | Prisoners | Poetry | Make a zine | HTML | /invisible literature | Write the author a letter | |
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Invisible Seattle | Seattle | Collaborative writing, utopian thought | 1987 | Excerpt online | /invisible seattle | ||
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A Kind Word Alone | Rob Swigart | Postmodern detective novella | 1997 | Nel Mezzo Della Vita book | HTML | ||
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Letter to Linus | William Gillespie | A hypercube | 2001 | HTML | /letter to linus |
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Literature Laboratory | Literature Laboratory | HTML | /litlab | Writing experiments you can attempt | |||
| Variations on a Plot Curve | William Gillespie | Fiction | 1994 | HTML | /plot curve |
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Mail art | /mail art |
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Martirano Archive | Salvatore Martirano | Life and work | /martirano | ||||
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Experiments | Bernadette Mayer | Writing experiments | HTML, MP3 | /mayer | Write | ||
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McCaffery Archive | Larry McCaffery | Avant-Criticism | Canonical, baby, timeless | Old school | HTML | /mccaffery | Borrego |
| I d:dr't lnow E~,n,~lish!–Ways to Fail, Dub Mix, Part I | a story by Raymond Federman, faithlessly transcribed by McCaffery | 1998 | [unintelligible] | |||||
| Re-Double or Nothing | avant-criticism bridge column | 1998 | ||||||
| Sign-Processed Hypertextual Critical Narrative / interview with David Blair | 1994 |
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| The Velvet Rims of Derek Pell's X-Textual "Hod Rod" | Avant criticism | 1993 | ||||||
| How the postmodern turn in rock music led to nothing but road | 1990/ 2000 | |||||||
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Mechanics and Kinematics of Web-Work Plot Construction | Harry Stephen Keeler | Writing Manual for Web-Work Fiction | 1928 | Appeared in print in 1928 | HTML | /keeler | Learn to write unpublishable fiction |
| Oblique Strategies | Brian Eno | Artistic prompts | CGI | Compose | ||||
| Parenti Collection | Susan Parenti | Utopian poetry, utopian plays | Nonsequitur books | /parenti | Perform | |||
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Los Poetas y el General | Edited by Eva Goldschmidt Wyman. | Poems by Chileans living under Pinochet | 2002 | LOM Ediciones, 2002. ISBN: 956-282-491-8 | Poems by Fernando Alegría, Oscar Hahn, David Valjalo. | /poetas | Know history |
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Rebellion of the People's Republic of the Southeastern Heights | Joe Sprague | Meditative spasms for adult adolescents | 1999 | Nel Mezzo Della Vita book | HTML, CGI | /rebellion | Random |
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Rock Geek Chic | William Gillespie & Crystalline Scoggins | rock scholarship | 2008- | HTML / MP3 | rock geek chic .com |
sit back and listen | |
| Texts That Matter to Me | Art of history of theory piracy and education | etc. | Don't know anything about it | offsite HTML / PDF | Perform | |||
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Theater Therapy | Rick Burkhardt, William Gillespie, Joe Futrelle, Mark Enslin | A stage play for four performers | 1992 | The script, with a critical introduction | /theater therapy |
Audience participation is discouraged | |
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The Theoretical Posture | Dr. Pandarus | A tract written to welcome Derrida to Stanford | 2002 | Nel Mezzo Della Vita book | Excerpts online | ||
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Trade Names | William Gillespie, Nick Montfort | A strip book, homage to Queneau | 2002 | Limited signed edition of 58 copies | HTML | /trade names |
Arguably |
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Transcriptions from a Blank Book | Dirk Stratton | a poem | Tall book published by Dandelion | HTML | /transcriptions | ||
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An Unfinished Revolution? | Albert Müller & Karl Müller, eds. | Heinz von Foerster & the Biological Computer Laboratory | 2007 | A beautifully done hardbound book | Chapters online | /cybernetics | |
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The Unknown: an Anthology | Authors Unknown | The red herring of the award-winning hypertext novel | 1998-2002 | A book of poetry & fiction | The Great American Hypertext Novel | unknown hypertext .com |
Many readers got to drink with the writers around the turn of the millennium |
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The Unknown: Disc Golf Tour | Disc Golf Course Reviews | 2002-? | HTML | /discgolftour | Go throw | ||
| Theory of the Unknown | William Gillespie | Literary Criticism and Theory | 1995-? | HTML | /theory | Read a book | ||
| Canada wins the Oulipcs | /oulipics | |||||||
| On Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree | 1997 | HTML | /theory /suttree |
Indices to the novel | ||||
| The Beer underneath all this Metafictional Foam: Metaphor in Book Reviews of Infinite Jest | 1996 | HTML | /theory /beer |
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The War Prayer | Mark Twain | Story about current events | 1905 | A postcard | /war prayer |
Think & act | |
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William Page | William Gillespie and heteronyms | The publisher's home page | 1998- | HTML | /william | Understand the man | |
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The Whole University Catalog | Heinz von Foerster and his students | An authentic zine and time capsule expressing the spirit of college life in 1969 | 1969 | Very rare | /whole university |
Take drugs, listen to the Beatles, and do engineering equations | |
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Wordwork | An electronic literature laboratory | 1999 | Over it | HTML | word work .org |
Does dynamic count as interactive? Does multisequential? | |
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Newspoetry |
Associated Poets (AP) |
Poetry about events in the news | 1996-2005 | www. newspoetry .com | Write it | ||
| Primer | Newspoetry ABCs | 1999 | CGI | Recreate the day's headlines in a newspoem | ||||
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...and you arrive with your psychoses | Portrait of America | 1999 | |||||
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Chicken Soup for your Corporate Ass | Hypertext: moral nourishment for transnationals | Newspoem 1999 | /chickensoup | HTML | |||
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Dow Jones and Union Carbide to Merge | Hypertext | Newspoem 1999 | HTML | ||||
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Khazak Launch Ban Threatens Mir | Concrete newspoetry | Newspoem 1999 | JPG | ||||
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The Mayor of the Moon is Interested in Development | 1999 | ||||||
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Newspoetry Witch Project | Hypertext | 1999 | |||||
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Omnifesto | Electronic literature manifesto | 1999 | JPG | /omnifesto | |||
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Sequence | Poetry slideshow | 1999 | Push | /sequence | Automated | ||
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Tinyman for President | Hypertext | 2000 | |||||
