hyperliterature

23 Aug

It's Literature, Jim... but not as we know it: Publishing and the Digital Revolution

in digital writing, ebooks, ereaders, experimental poetry, experimental writing, google books, hyperliterature, interactive fiction, ipad, multimedia fiction, new media literature, publishing, publishing on demand, Vooks

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From Vooks to ebooks, from the iPad to the Google settlement, and from print-on-demand to new styles of writing, this article attempts to analyse the effects of the digital revolution on the publishing industry, and to make some educated guesses about how things may develop in the next few years.

17 Jun

London Churches, Part 3

in architecture, experimental writing, fiction, hyperfiction, hyperliterature, literature, London churches, photography

"Inside, it's suddenly evening, suddenly quiet. Almost subterranean. Little glowing lights, opulent gloom. Big smooth pillars. Grey daylight gleaming weakly in the windows, seemingly a long way off, as if the outside world has gone faint and distant. The way it does when you're lying in hospital, wondering if you'll ever get back there. Like my Dad last year, that evening on the ward, my last visit."

The third part of a hyperfiction based on visits to churches in the City of London. Part 3 takes in the following:

11 Jan

Not-so-silly Millie: An appreciation of Millie Niss

in flash, humour, hyperliterature, literature, Martha Deed, Millie Niss, new media, Spork, Sporkworld, writing

Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: an appreciation of Millie Niss, the writer and new media artist, who died in November of last year.

18 Dec

And - Chapters 9-16

in abridged version, Elizabeth Gaskell, hyperliterature, literature, North and South

"Mr Thornton walked rapidly, without awaiting Dixon's slow movements. Margaret stood by the tea-table, resolved. The lines in her father's face were soft and waving, with a frequent undulating kind of trembling, the dreamy lids a considerable distance from the eyes. Mr Thornton's straight brows fell low, principally about the lips, one moment stretching from earth to sky and filling all the width of the horizon, at the next obediently compressed into a vase."