On Day 3 of a Brooklyn literary outlet's experiment in Twitter micro-publishing, the Ink speaks with author Rick Moody and publisher Andy Hunter of Electric Literature.
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Brooklyn-based Lit Mag’s Twitter Experiment
A literary anthology based out of Gold Street in Fort Greene, Electric Literature, began publishing a new short story by Rick Moody, renowned author of The Ice Storm, via Twitter today. Using its Twitter handle @ElectricLit the literary outlet announced the coming of “Rick Moody’s Microserialized Twitter Fiction Project,” which is titled ‘Some Contemporary Characters,’...
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Choose me!
By Mara Zepeda The theater at Bay Ridge Preparatory School doubles as a basketball court. A dozen students congregate in the cavernous room. Some girls-black knee socks askew-dangle their legs off the edge of the stage. Boys loosen their neckties and slouch in folding chairs arranged in a semicircle. Other students are splayed on the...