In the Age of Spite: The Proliferation of ‘Dumb Rage’ in Internet Literature
January 4th, 2012 § 5 Comments
Ralph Waldo Emerson's comments on Jane Austen's work in the style of image macros, popularized by internet communities like Internet Poetry. Source image courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin via Wikimedia Commons.
There has never been a historical period/art movement without its shit talkers.
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Emotionally dissonant but solvable: An interview with Frank Hinton
January 31st, 2011 § 3 Comments
This is part two of an interview series focusing on how the Internet is changing/improving/destroying the “indie lit” world. Interviews will feature writers, editors, designers and other artists with a web presence. I recently spoke with Frank Hinton over gmail chat. Some spelling has been corrected and time stamps have been removed but abbreviations, punctuation and line breaks have been preserved to give an ~accurate account of what conducting an interview online looks like.
Frank Hinton is the editor-in-chief and founder of the online literary magazine Metazen. She has been published on Lamination Colony, in decomP magazine, >kill author, Pop Serial and Pangur Ban Party among other publications. She is 27 and lives in Nova Scotia.
Frances Dinger: hi frank
Frank Hinton: hey
Frances: is now an okay time for the interview?
Frank: yes. it is. im getting headphones. one of my roommates is trying to sleep so i need to get headphones.
I’m back
Frances: sleeping at nine o’clock on a saturday? do you live with old ladies?
that’s not a real question
Frank: hahah
sorry. the headphones I got didn’t work
my roommate is going through a ridiculous breakup
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My attention span is shrinking but my heart is growing, haha: An interview with Stephen Tully Dierks
January 23rd, 2011 § 5 Comments
Stephen Tully Dierks reads ”What the Fuck Does ‘In Real Life’ Mean if You Live In Front of Your Computer?” for the Quickies reading series in Chicago.
This is part one of an interview series focusing on how the Internet is changing/affecting the “indie lit” world. Interviews will feature writers, editors, designers and other artists with a web presence. I recently spoke with Stephen Tully Dierks over gmail chat. Some spelling has been corrected and time stamps have been removed but abbreviations, punctuation and line breaks have been preserved to give an ~accurate account of what conducting an interview online looks like.
Stephen Tully Dierks is the editor of the print magazine Pop Serial, he also manages the magazine’s tumblr page, which promotes other work by Pop Serial contributors. Stephen lives in Chicago and has been published in New Wave Vomit, Thought Catalog and Metazen among other publications.
Frances E. Dinger: okay, i am ready when you are
Stephen Tully Dierks: oh hi
Frances: haha, hi
Stephen: i am in a group chat with ana michael and poncho haha
Frances: nice. what is the group chatting about?
Stephen: a spanish music video currently
i could pull double duty probably
we’re just being dumb
i am ready
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