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Internet Fiction Digest, 14th March | Twitter Fiction Festival | The Organist | Lamination Colony
The Twitter Fiction Festival is happening now, and their live stream offers a variety of ways in which this idea can come through. Alexander McCall-Smith (@McCallSmith) seems to have just written his usual McCally prose split up into 36 or 40 parts, i.e. writing (or copy + pasting) in a Twitter box until he runs […]
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Internet Fiction Digest, 8th March | Donald Barthelme | Laura Middlebrook | Read Novels in Under 90 Minutes!
March 7, 2014
There is a ‘click’ they talk about, when as a reader you come across something opens you up to a new way of writing — where what you can do with language suddenly expands. For David Foster Wallace is was this total ripper story by Donald Barthelme, called The Balloon. I read it this week […]
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Internet Fiction Digest, 21st February | Digital Writers’ Festival | Anthony Hecht | Natalie Eilbert
February 24, 2014
As I write this there are panels and workshops going on over, under, and through me in internet waves for the Digital Writers’ Festival, and their super-diverse calendar of events is full of videos that you can dip into to learn something about writing in the digital age. There’s a panel on experimental internet writing, […]
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Internet Fiction Digest, January 31st | Amos Oz | Google Hangouts w/ Margaret Atwood & Alice Munro | The Newer York
January 31, 2014
I’m not very good at listening to podcasts, I get distracted, they often waft over me and I end up feeling like I’ve missed something at some point. But Jonathan Safran Foer’s voice is just so caring, warming and exact, and this thoroughly kibbutztastic story he reads for the New Yorker fiction podcast has just […]
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Internet Fiction Digest, 24 January: Uncreative Writing Edition | Shia LaBeouf | Ryan O’Neill | Rosmarie Waldrop
January 24, 2014
We back and we back and we back, and as “Shia LeBeouf” suggests in this #stopcreating essay, the quickest way to write now is a bit of Ctrl+C, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+V. Why be at home, noodling, worrying about how to turn on your genius switch, writing “as if the Internet had never happened”? Forage through […]
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PPR in 2014
January 10, 2014
We are kicking off 2014 with our biggest event yet. It is an event so big, it will probably leave us slumped in an exhausted, satisfied heap. For this reason (and because Pip has to finish her damn doctorate) this is the last PPR gig for a very long time, but not the last of […]
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Internet Fiction Digest, 21st Nov: Teaser Edition | Felicity Castagna | Jack Vening | Hilary Bell (& More…)
November 21, 2013
This Friday eve, we’re entering the City of Shadows exhibition in the second of our three showcases at the Justice & Police Museum down at Circular Quay. The project is called Details Unknown, and is a series of stories and performances based on this photo we know nothing about. This is the story so far, […]
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Internet Fiction Digest, 8th Nov: Summer Daze Edition | Willy Vlautin | Shane Jones | Kate Elkington
November 8, 2013
I learnt who Willy Vlautin was today when one of the publicists at my work said she read the first four pages of his forthcoming novel ‘The Free’ and was already in tears. Investigation was done. Turns out he’s both a novelist and frontman of the alt-country band Richmond Fontaine, and that as such, he […]
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Internet Fiction Digest, 1st November: Nostalgia Ultra Edition | Joan Didion | Paul Auster | Janette Turner Hospital
November 1, 2013
Oh, Joan Didion. You’re so heavenly. She’s written extensively and heartbreakingly on loss, but this essay, ‘Goodbye to All That’, she reflects on the debt she paid to New York over the years she spent living there, and the reasons why she left it behind. It’s ever-relevant to those of us who have been there, or dreamed of […]
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Internet Fiction Digest, 23rd October: Absurd Edition | Samsa In Love | Mieke Chew | Will Self
October 23, 2013
As a self-confessed Camus, Kafka and Beckett fanboy, this Litrachur blogpost could easily end up being a gushing dead-white-man fest but I will try and restrain myself. So, the art of absurd fiction: embracing the ridiculousness of ‘humans’, the monotony of ‘life’. First up is this delightful, hilarious adaptation of Das classically absurd Kafka short […]
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penguin plays rough 
March 14, 2014
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