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Reviews & interviews
LEA New Media Exhibition Interview - 14 December, 2011
Jeremy Hight, curated of LEA - Leonardo Online - New Media Exhibition, ‘Re-Drawing Boundaries’, posted this interview with me. Go here for a full-list of the other interviews, which includes the ever-fabulous Tim Wright.
National Post review of A Curious Dream - 9 December, 2011
A long review of A Curious Dream, my new collected stories (out in Canada only), by Donna Bailey Nurse. It’s a mixed review but has some good stuff in it too.
The Independent on Sunday - Digital Literature, by Lisa Gee, 13 November, 2011
This interesting overview of the current scene re digital literature, ‘A Beginning, a Middle, but No End in Sight’, covering both traditional publishing and eliterature folks, comes from Lisa Gee. In the accompanying video, Naomi Alderman and Alison Norrington both recommend ‘Inanimate Alice’ as a work of digital fiction worth exploring.
The Next Chapter - Shelagh Rogers and Jo Saul - Monday 14 November, 2011
On The Next Chapter, a CBC Radio books programme, Jo Saul declares that if you liked ‘The Help’, you’ll love ‘The Mistress of Nothing’! This discussion takes place within the first fifteen minutes of the programme.
Clevedon.com reviews The Mistress of Nothing - 30 September 2011
A review by Donna Marchetti on Cleveland.com. You need to scroll down the page to find it. Next to Paul Bowles, no less.
BBC Radio 4 - World At One interview - Thursday 18 August, 2011
On Thursday 18 August, I was interviewed by Martha Kearney for BBC Radio 4’s news programme, World at One, for their series on the future of the book.
Here is the interview, extracted from the programme and uploaded to Audioboo:
A Conversation with Tony White - published 1 July 2011
Tony White interviewed me earlier this year for a report he was writing. He has written up the interview separately and published it on his website today, Piece of Paper Press.
This post was written for the TRG blog, at www.transliteracy.com.
Well, without dipping into too many cliches about the passage of time, it is nearly five years since the DMU/Penguin wiki-novel experiment, ‘A Million Penguins’, took place. The project ran from 1 Feb 2007 for five weeks, and all of us who were involved with it remember it as a time of chaos and great entertainment. Yesterday I was down at Goldsmith’s College, in London, where I was the external examiner for a PhD candidate, Amy Spencer; her PhD was on the Networked Book. She built her thesis around three case studies of networked books that are also works of fiction, ‘Paddlesworth Press’ , ‘The Golden Notebook Project’, and ‘A Million Penguins’. It’s a solid and interesting piece of research.
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