Spineless Books
A new
vision of the world in the light of the unforgivable & unforgettable
enormities committed during the last century
requires a new way of giving meaning with words to that new vision of the world —Federman
requires a new way of giving meaning with words to that new vision of the world —Federman
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| books with spines | title | who | what | when | electronic | interactivity | |
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11, 112, 006, 825, 558, 016 Sonnets | William Gillespie & William Shakespeare | 11, 112, 006, 825, 558, 016 Sonnets | 1999 | After Queneau's | CGI | Dynamic |
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20-Consonant Poetry | You | A form of serial poetry, based on 12-tone music | 1993-? | Has to happen | Jade Quill | |
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The Ed Report | Ed Commission | Serial fiction for the Web | 2000 | Probably illegal | HTML | |
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The Executor | William Gillespie and Nick Montfort | Kinetic fiction | 2005 | Javascript (recommended)Java / Processing | ||
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Federman Collection | Raymond Federman | Folk tale | 2002 | The Story of the Sparrow: limited edition of 26 copies signed by Federman | The Federman Collection | Listen to Federman |
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Ernest Vincent Wright | A Novel of Over 50,000 Words Without the Letter "E" | 1939 | Happened once, will happen again | HTML | Write a lipogram | |
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Letter to Linus | William Gillespie | A hypercube | 2001 | HTML | ||
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Experiments | Bernadette Mayer | Writing experiments | timeless | HTML, MP3 | Write | |
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McCaffery Archive | Larry McCaffery | Avant-Criticism | Canonical, baby, timeless | Old school | HTML | Borrego |
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Mechanics and Kinematics of Web-Work Plot Construction | Harry Stephen Keeler | Writing Manual for Web-Work Fiction | 1928 | Appeared in print in 1928 | HTML | Learn to write unpublishable fiction |
| Oblique Strategies | Brian Eno | Artistic prompts | ? | CGI | Compose | ||
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Los Poetas y el General | Edited by Eva Goldschmidt Wyman | Poems by Chileans living under Pinochet | 2002 | LOM Ediciones, 2002. ISBN: 956-282-491-8 | Poems by Fernando Alegría, Oscar Hahn, David Valjalo. | Know history |
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Table of Forms | William Gillespie | A collection of literary forms | 1996- | Blue paperback and hardback | HTML | Write |
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Trade Names | William Gillespie, Nick Montfort | A strip book, homage to Queneau | 2002 | Limited signed edition of 58 copies | HTML | Arguably |
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The Unknown: an Anthology | Authors Unknown | The red herring of the award-winning hypertext novel | 1998-2002 | A book of poetry & fiction | The Great American Hypertext Novel | Many readers got to drink with the writers around the turn of the millennium |
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Theory of the Unknown | William Gillespie | Literary Criticism and Theory | 1995-? | HTML | Read a book |
