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Over at Lit Hub, Bridget Read discusses the gender politics of Tinder, the rise of the Single Woman, and how these phenomena have permeated recent nonfiction by women: It makes sense that independence would be their chosen frontier, the pursuit of solitude their manifest destiny. The ability to be alone has long been the provenance […]
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One week last spring I said it out loud for the first time: “Sometimes I play so long, my fingers go numb.”
...moreAs much as many of us would love to read faster so that we could read more books, science points to speed reading as little more than efficient skimming, partially because the eye has a limited range where it can truly focus: A deeper problem, however—and the one that also threatens the new speed-reading apps—is […]
...moreAt the Atlantic, Megan Garber explores the revival of the serial with the recent release of Belgravia, a serial novel-and-app from Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey.
...moreSpelling is important even when you are stealing money. An app for your mental health. Google wants to blend physical and digital books. Music unites us.
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There’s a connection between the longings of the characters I develop in my fiction and my urge to dominate.
...moreLast week, Agatha Christie Productions Ltd. And TELL Player Limited released an app that re-tells Christie’s 1930 short story collection, The Mysterious Mr. Quin, through live video, social media feeds, and blog posts: In the app—which updates the action to the present day—viewers click through the characters’ social media walls, feeds and albums to learn […]
...moreThe New York Times explores if automatic translation apps could put old-fashioned literary translators out of business.
...moreSpace sex! The science of being twitterpated. iPads can’t fix everything. The religion of technology. Need to police the police? There’s an app for that.
...moreShame. The Internet. Monica Lewinsky. You spend hours killing people, but you don’t feel guilty. So much data. So few uses. All your stories in one little app. Reimagining incarceration. Your annoying Facebook friends have something to tell you.
...moreTo celebrate the New Year, Electric Literature is giving away an interactive short story app from acclaimed Israeli author Alex Epstein! True Legends is a multi-dimensional app exploring the story of a blind piano tuner. Alongside Epstein’s story, the app features music by Ita Lia and Ulrich Ziegler and animations by Tsach Weinberg. It’s available for […]
...moreAs if you needed another reason to hate the Internet. Here you go, Luddite. Can a monkey own a picture? Wikipedia thinks so. Need to measure your soul? There is an app for that. Life at the edge of connectivity. A network of networks.
...moreAlready all the rage in Japan, the cell phone novel is slowly making its way to the US. The cell phone novel is a tweet-like fiction form: short bursts of serialized prose with chapters usually confined to 200 words or less. HuffPost Books has the whole story.
...moreWhisper is an app that lets users make anonymous confessions. It’s brilliant and seems to be here to stay. Or stay as long as these things do. Pretty soon, writing on a laptop will be just another bit of nostalgia. Like the typewriter. And that thing that we hold and make caveman-like etchings with? Oh, […]
...moreSerialized fiction is experiencing a resurgence, and we have technology to thank. Back in 2012, The Silent History brought the serialized novel to our iPhones (check out our interview with co-author Kevin Moffett here). And now, there’s Wattpad. The New York Times takes an in-depth look the app, which sees “more than two million writers producing 100,000 pieces of […]
...moreIf you or your kids have been near a TV in the past few decades, you probably went gaga for Reading Rainbow, the PBS children’s show hosted by LeVar Burton that encouraged young people to read. The show is no more, but LeVar Burton is still determined to turn kids into book lovers with a […]
...moreRon Hogan is relaunching his Beatrice website as an app that will publish transcripts of feature-length interviews with authors, along with streaming video of highlights from each conversation. In order to make the app available for free, Hogan has launched a Kickstarter to raise funds. The first Beatrice issue, “Life Stories,” will focus on memoir […]
...moreThe Chimerist, a new website we’re loving, explores the app for Paul Madonna’s Everything Is Its Own Reward. “The places in these images are suspended in time, and the animations work to slow you down until you’re able to absorb this quality.”
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