The Town Crier
The Town Crier operated as a hub for criticism and commentary, connecting a community of writers, readers, and commentators through social media, and focusing on the interplay of literary opinion in and around the city of Toronto until its closure in February 2021.
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Louis D Rubin Jr.: The Novel is Always Dying
Patrick Roesle talks Louis D Rubin Jr and the death of the novel through the ages, McLuhan, Marcus Aurelius, Steve Jobs, and his roommate from Ohio -
They Pay How Many Cents Per Word?
New Orleans writer Chris Curley compares Dickens to Rowling, Asimov’s Science Fiction to The Atavist, and the crisis in cents per word payments -
undun and Poetry Beyond Print
E Martin Nolan dissects undun by The Roots, Kenneth Goldsmith and the uncreative writing of Christian Bök, Derren Wershler, versus rap verses -
Interactive Literature Online
Taras Tymoshenko: Digital, multimedia, and interactive literature are part of the literary arts’ anti-realist revolution -
Walter Ong and New Communications Tech
Julienne Isaacs defends Walter Ong from his critics, investigates Yalda T. Uhls, Kate Beaton, and the degradation of empathy and conversation -
The Great Gatsby, Half-Life, and Society’s Retribalization
Patrick Roesle on print as civilization, digital media as an oral/tribal media, The Great Gatsby, Half-Life, McLuhan, Harry Potter, and movie adaptations -
Managing Your Career as a Fiction Writer, Preferably of CliFi
A Swarm of Bees’ tips on writing novels, CliFi, wasting time by getting a real job like substitute teaching, and your futile efforts to keep your boyfriend -
Biscuits: Shalene Gupta on the Creative Class
Shalene Gupta on educating creativity out of her after the death of the novel, and the creative worker who replaced her at a biscuit company -
Eric Freeze Asks: “Why Stop Reading?”
Eric Freeze on airport bookstores, airport surveyors, reading demographics, James Ellroy, and the automation of inventory selection by online booksellers -
Our Relationship with eBooks
Andrea Grassi on Foucault, Barthes, Duguid, Benjamin, the #Bookpocalypse, technology/user relationships, and the future of the eBook -
Words in the Time of Twine
Anna DeCusatis writes about Twine, danah boyd, Anna Anthropy, Porpentine, Merrit Kopas, and the evolution of interactive fiction into an open-source medium -
The Fundamental Art of Storytelling
Gary Chandler on the future of literature in the digital era, Ursula K Le Guin, the Hugo Award, Yi-Fuen Chou, Jenny Zhang, and the long reach of BuzzFeed.
