Remembering John Ashbery: “But night, reserved, reticent, gives more than it takes.”
The world lost one of its most accomplished writers this weekend, and one of its most beloved, when the American poet John Ashbery died at his home in Hudson, NY, just a… Read more »
I’m so thankful that Harry M. was in this world
Awful tidings. Harry M., that Oulipian fabulist and translator of Gallic writing, is now among valiant ghosts, about a month short of his 87th birthday. Harry was our autochthonous imp, with a Parisian lilt… Read more »
Anti-normalization tips: Bienvenue à l’époque d’Ouprespo
As we move on from our November Unpleasantness, I find that certain, let’s say, irregularities continue troubling me. For example, I keep having this feeling that President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the phone… Read more »
Reading service aims to create the “YouTube of storytelling”
Oolipo, a subscription-based mobile reading service from German publisher Bastei Lübbe, will launch in July of next year, The Bookseller’s Lisa Campbell reports. In a sidebar profile, Oolipo’s Chief Product Officer Ryan… Read more »
When potential literature is best left potential: the case of the offensive t-shirt
This past weekend brought us a small and strange controversy that, strangely, may speak to the continuing validity of OuLiPo and potential literature generally. In the way of all internet… Read more »
Like Jonah Lehrer in leather pants
As reported in Billboard, Rolling Stone, BoingBoing and elsewhere, venerable rock group Def Leppard are returning to the studio to re-record many of their earlier classics note for note. The… 1 / Read more »
JFranz lays into Perec
Oh, Jonathan Franzen. Does your foot just really like being in your mouth? Fresh from making weird and irrelevant comments about Edith Wharton’s ugliness, he’s chanced for a sly jab… Read more »
FRIDAY CHALLENGE: Oulipo-inspired interactive fiction
big oak You are in a dense forest. To the East you can see a clearing. To the West, North, and South the forest continues, however the forest is to… 1 / Read more »
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