MetaFilter posts tagged with twitter and literature

The Library of Babel in 140 characters (or fewer)

0bvious — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 08:15:36 -0800

The universe (which others call The Twitter) is composed of every word in the English language; Shakespeare's folios, line-by-line-by-line; the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, exploded; Constantine XI, in 140 character chunks; Sun Tzu's Art of War, in its entirety; the chapter headings of JG Ballard, in abundance; and definitive discographies of Every. Artist. Ever... All this, I repeat, is true, but one hundred forty characters of inalterable wwwtext cannot correspond to any language, no matter how dialectical or rudimentary it may be. [previously]

Eat the bread everyone. Namaste.

naju — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:28:53 -0800

“Aaliyah would have been on Twitter. It is fucked up that she is dead.” Poet and Twitter entity Patricia Lockwood talks with HTMLGIANT about Twitter, literature, twitterature, comedy, poetry, sexting, Aaliyah and Olive Garden. Lockwood suggests that there may be something substantial and heretofore unexamined rumbling in the bowels of certain Twitter communities and people (such as @graeyalien and MeFi's own @gregerskine.)

No more briar pipes

mrgrimm — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:07:31 -0800

Néo Fénéon: "Three thousand seven hundred dollars richer after stealing from the job, Marvin Williams, 25, of Brooklyn, went to urinate in a playground." - Items from the NYPD blotter remixed daily in the style of Félix Fénéon. (previously)

@Poldy: Yes

Trurl — Wed, 25 May 2011 20:03:37 -0800

This is not an attempt to tweet mindlessly the entire contents of Ulysses, word-for-word, 140 characters at a time. That would be dull and impossible. What is proposed here is a recasting or a reimagining of the reading experience of this novel, start to finish, within the confines of a day-long series of tweets from a global volunteer army of Joyce-sodden tweeps. (previously!)

All in the details

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:29:03 -0800

Surface Detail is the latest science fiction novel by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks to be set in his Culture universe.... You can read the first chapter online Bookbag review Herald review Bookgeeks review If you are new to the Culture here is a guide There's a font for Marain, the language of the Culture Always one for keeping up with technology (last time around we had a podcast and a iphone app) Banks will be doing an interview by Twitter (an, if you will, Twitterview) with the booksellers Waterstones (@waterstones) on the 19th Oct. (tweet questions with the hashtag #mbanks and the 'stones drone will collect them) SFX interview - part 1, part 2 Wired interview ScifiNow interview Audio interview with Tim Haigh STV interview

A conspiracy of theorists

Mr. Palomar — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:51:19 -0800

Several Twitter-based games were launched during the world's first Literary Twestival: Flash Fiction, Collective Nouns, Pass the Plot, and Project Twutenberg (via).