Some Personal Philosophy – and Why You Will Not Read About Any Unsuccessful Books in this Blog
I read lots of books. Some of them I don’t mention here. Since one of the topics I have studied and taught is branding and cognitive theory, I know that even a negative review of something will bring attention to it and arouse the curiosity of some to the [...]
March 17, 2011
Tags: art and science, color theory, electronic literature, Flash, Jonah Lehrer, literary blog, new media literature, new media writing, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Terry Bailey, WEB history Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary 
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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 No Comments
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
Part III: Two-Bit Words, Academics v Guerrilla Artists and Digitally Influenced Print Books
For my next look at academic writing contrasted with “two-bit” vocabulary of writers of nonfiction, I explored the text of Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary by new media theorist N. Katherine Hayles. This was a painful reading experience, and dissecting it as I read to understand that pain was even more difficult. I [...]
November 9, 2009
Tags: electronic literature, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, House of Leaves, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mark Z. Danielewski, N. Katheriane Hayles, People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary No Comments
Part I: Chabon’s Maps and Legends and Hayle’s Electronic Literature meet Two-Bit Words and Pygmy Musicians
During an online reading conference, for which I was the discussion leader (have I mentioned that I am about to complete an MFA in new media writing from Antioch University? – more on that later), several complained about the use of “obscure” vocabulary words by Michael Chabon in his book of essays, Maps and Legends: [...]
October 4, 2009
Tags: academic writing, book review, electronic literature, hocketing, literature, Maps and Legends, Michael Chabon, N. Katherine Hayles, new media, Terry Bailey author Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary No Comments
Some thoughts about my previous new media riff post on The Next American Essay – and the democratization of writing
How about if we all were required to create something after we read a book?! The interactive multimedia (Flash) animation I posted below is an experiment and a work in progress. I hope you will check it out and feel free to comment! New media lets me express myself and experiment with all communication forms [...]
August 30, 2009
Tags: electronic literature, Flash, John D'Agata, literature, multimedia, new media, Next American Essay, Susan Griffin Posted in: Reading Diary No Comments
Riffing on John D’Agata’s The Next American Essay
New Media Riff On Next American Essay This interactive new media file is too big for me to post here on the main blog page. Go ahead and click on the animation text title above, and it will take you to a page housing the piece.
August 23, 2009
Tags: Ballet, book review, electronic literature, Farce Double, Harry Matthews, John D'Agata, John McPhee, new media author Terry Bailey, new media book review, Red Shoes, Susan Griffin, The Next American Essay, The Red Shoes, The Search for Marvin Gardens Posted in: Book Riffs No Comments
Contemplating Jonathan Safran Foer at Vroman’s in Pasadena
Foer grew up with computers, computer games, the WEB, video games, desktop publishing; it is not a great surprise that when he sat down to write novels, he was influenced by his exposure to new media, and made use of pictures, stories told from different viewpoints, typography design and graphical interfaces. I’m back on Colorado [...]
August 14, 2009
Tags: California, electronic literature, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Foer, interactive, new media, Pasadena, Vroman's Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary 3 Comments