Archive for January, 2010
New Media Literature as demonstrated by Janet Murray’s Hamlet on the Holodeck
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace is deep. No brief book review could do it justice, and for this reason alone I would recommend it as mandatory reading for anyone interested in the future of narrative writing now that the computer and cyberspace exist. As author Janet Murray states, “the computer [...]
January 29, 2010
Tags: electronic literature, Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray, MIT Press, Narrative for Gaming, new media as performance, new media as story, new media literature, New Media Narrative Posted in: Book Riffs 
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My Electronic Book, Amy Beach and Me, Launches!
I have launched my new web-based electronic book, Amy Beach and Me, at amybeachandme.com. I hope you will check it out and leave your thoughts at its accompanying blog (amybeachandme.com/blog – see button top right of the book, too). The book is a biography of the first noted woman composer in the United States, and [...]
January 17, 2010
Tags: Amy Beach, Amy Beach and Me, electronic literature, memoir, new media literature, woman composer, women composers Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary No Comments
I’m Back
Away a little longer than anticipated, but, hey, how many months does one celebrate the holidays and graduate with an MFA? I could say I definitely earned a month long brief vacation! For the last two years I have worked 3 12-hour days per week in order to conjure up the four days I needed [...]
January 10, 2010
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