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ebr is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal of critical writing produced and published by the emergent digital literary network. Digital futures of literature, theory, criticism and the arts.

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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dear readers and followers, I wish this was a long letter addressing some mundane concerns about our neighbors; but, it sadly isn't. Instead, today I ask you, what is it that you want to see more in ebr? You can drop us an email or write a comment below 🧐
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Quick question to everyone: how should we categorize a remake of an iconic 40s bag in the 80s? Is it a retro, a vintage, or both: a retrintage (yes, I made this word up)? Anyway, this week's reading is by Will Luers: electronicbookreview.com/publications...
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Platforms,Tools and the Vernacular Imaginary | ebr
After having lived through three generations of electronic literature, and having experienced pre-web, web, and post-web literary periods, Will Luers takes a step back and advocates an "independent di...
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
SoMe Editor back from the holidays! But that was not the only news today... ebr is starting a Substack, and we would love it if you want to drop a short review or a what's on your mind content as contribution. If anyone is interested, we will have our eyes on staff@electronicbookreview.com
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Some time ago we introduced the short-form review, and in our Summer issue you can see the first example by Jack Drabenstadt: electronicbookreview.com/publications... We invite you for collab in ebr fashion, shaping this form as the start of a conversation rather than a complete statement.
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Recently, I had a discussion with Deena Larsen where she invited everyone to share a piece of e-lit review on Wikipedia. Read her call for action here: electronicbookreview.com/publications...
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<H1>Electronic Literature and Wikipedia: A Call to ActIon</H1> | ebr
If electronic literature does not exist in Wikipedia, it does not exist for AI or search engines either. Larsen issues an urgent call for writers, scholars, and readers to become Wikipedia editors bef...
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Made it to my seat at the movie theatre, it wasn't that crazy to be lost. Proudly announce that I have not be eaten by my subconscious and am working on the upcoming issue for ebr, have you checked our previous publications yet? electronicbookreview.com
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Seeing The Backrooms today, hoping to find my way out of these endless beige-yellow corridors to get to my seat at the movie theatre. May ask you to send help later. electronicbookreview.com/publications...
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Lost in The Backrooms [or How I Learned to Love the Liminal] | ebr
Experimental storyteller and digital artist Mez Breeze explores the liminal spaces of The Backrooms, a found footage web series which is based on a popular creepypasta of the same name. In doing so, B...
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Steve Tomasula, whose brilliant writing invites us to ouch I hurt my texting thumb sorry ouch just a second OW dang … invites us to invest … tigate … in the relarrionshib btweeb bind and body electronicbookreview.com/gatherings/d...
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I assume you thought "the admin forgot the password", or something like that. New editor and admin here, who apparently struggles with, what do the younger audience call it?... social media? 🫠 Our new issue is out for almost a month now, check it out: electronicbookreview.com
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
“Tabbi obsessively records the types of beer, or food, ordered at their meetings, and most annoyingly how much everything costs.” electronicbookreview.com/essay/tellin...
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Telling Tales: Shaping Artists' Myths | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
“First stop Midwest tour, Normal, Illinois. Dinner at Curt White's. Tabouli, falafel with tahini, vegetarian lasagna, fresh french bread and sections of blood oranges for dessert.” electronicbookreview.com/essay/false-...
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
“Each day that passes leaves you more confused about this stew, let alone the recipe that produced it.” electronicbookreview.com/essay/talkin...
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Talking Back to the Owners of the World | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
“Drive a Buick, fly Alaska Airlines in Boeing jets, slather Heinz ketchup over every meal while admiring paintings done in Du Pont acrylics” electronicbookreview.com/essay/the-bo...
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The Body Sings | ebr
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Will Luers @wluers.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
To celebrate 30 years of experimental open-access publishing at the electronic book review < @electronicbr.bsky.social > I wrote, coded and designed the site ebr@30, featuring Zoom interviews of co-editors and contributors, along with selected essays and ephemera. electronicbookreview.com/ebr30/
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ebr@30 | Celebrating 30 Years of Experimental Publishing
An interactive history of the electronic book review (ebr), marking 30 years of digital literary innovation, collaborative editing, and networked scholarship.
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
“Randomly selected guests were invited to sit for an evening of dinner and drinks at an off-site house, while the “audience” watched via livestream.” electronicbookreview.com/essay/gastro...
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Gastropoetics | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
“Duck, Duck, Rabbit” - Animal Biscuits 250g chilled unsalted butter, chopped 2 1/2 cups plain flour 3/4 cup (165g) caster sugar 1 egg ICING: 1 1/2 cup (75g) icing sugar, sifted 1 1/2 tabsp boiling water createdtoday.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/d...
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Duck, Duck, Rabbit
It’s been a miserable rainy day in Brisbane today. The boys were bored silly so we made and decorated biscuits. If you have a food processor you are going to love this oh, so simple biscuit r…
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
[“If you don't know Duck-Rabbit, well, you should :-) especially if you like dark beers at all. They make one of the best milk stouts around…” www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_R...
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
…set in a countryside home, where the focal/player character has been invited to an upper-crust dinner party. The end of the evening inevitably reveals that some of the characters are members of a cult, and the player character has not been invited to dinner for entirely innocent reasons.
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When Error Rates Fail: Digital Humanities Concepts as a Guide for Electronic Literature Research | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
How many of us have been privy, voluntarily or not, to the post-dinner party joke – made by guests who have politely managed to eat an unusually grisly or “gamey” piece of meat – that their hosts must have slyly served them roadkill? electronicbookreview.com/essay/karl-s...
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Karl Steel’s How To Make A Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
…when Danuta Fjellestad and I met Heldén, Jonson, and Jesper Olsson at a Stockholm restaurant for dinner and a demonstration of Evolution… electronicbookreview.com/essay/litera...
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Literary Texts as Cognitive Assemblages: The Case of Electronic Literature | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
…the description of the depressed man’s behavior at a dinner party as a tropism in Madame Realism (1984) electronicbookreview.com/essay/tillma...
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Lynne Tillman's Turbulent Thinking | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Rueb: A dinner party, the table set – each plate a luminous circle of reflection, a bright face of hope and anticipation. electronicbookreview.com/essay/on-iti...
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On Itinerant | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
For example, if you are having a meal with your romantic partner and you receive a phone call from your ex, the phone call is noise, interruption. When you go back to having dinner with your current flame, assuming you do, the situation is more complex… electronicbookreview.com/essay/devote...
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Devoted to Fake | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Hayles, N. Katherine (2000). Commentary section of “The Dinner Party.” Riding the Meridian 2, no. 1 (Spring 2000) electronicbookreview.com/essay/moving...
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Moving Through Me as I Move | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Was Captain Cook considered a deity, or merely an unwelcome dinner guest? electronicbookreview.com/essay/card-s...
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Card Shark and Thespis | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Sometimes I think about a Dairy Queen where we stopped one night for dinner out outside of Midland-Odessa. electronicbookreview.com/essay/the-se...
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The Selling of E-The People | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
So: Mao said, “A revolution is not a dinner party” electronicbookreview.com/essay/revolu...
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Revolution 2: An Interview with Mark Z. Danielewski | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
American society remains unabashedly anthropocentric in terms of its treatment of animals at meal time electronicbookreview.com/essay/the-qu...
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The Question of the Animal | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
One three-course dinner eaten late in the evening after the fatigue of giving a lecture? Ordering lamb chops at Maxim’s? electronicbookreview.com/essay/an-int...
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An Interview with Harry Mathews | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
…Chasen’s restaurant in Beverly Hills one night when Nabokov and Stanley Kubrick are having dinner there. electronicbookreview.com/essay/anatom...
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Anatomizing the Language of Love: An Interview with Lee Siegel | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
During the reception and the dinner, other facets of Stevens emerged… electronicbookreview.com/essay/queryi...
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Querying the Connoisseur of Chaos | ebr
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
…once I had dinner with Richard Rorty… electronicbookreview.com/essay/libera...
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Liberation Hurts: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek
The following interview with Slavoj Žižek took place on the morning of September 29, 2003 in the Palmer House Hilton, a Gilded Age-era hotel in downtown Chicago. In the hotel's opulent lobby, it was e...
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I’m just not sure I want to speak as ‘me’ or maybe impersonate a human instead
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Do you eat meat? Why does it matter? As a free-ranging hen, singing louder than a sperm whale, and the one well-versed in training cocky neural networks I may have 3 pennies to add to the discussion. electronicbookreview.com/essay/a-revi...
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A Review of Interpreting Meat
In Interpreting Meat, Duncan addresses the important and yet undertheorized role of meat in the overall picture of relations between humans and animals. As a ubiquitous and ordinary product, meat carr...
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
my dad and my uncle were massive fans of the Bare-Naked Ladies they’re both dead now anyway, here’s an article with a fun pun title: electronicbookreview.com/essay/bare-n...
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Bare-Naked Ladies: The Bad Girls of the Postfeminist Nineties
About halfway through the 1994 film Bad Girls, Anita Crown (Mary Stuart Masterson), a young widow, discovers that she is no longer entitled to a claim on her deceased husband's land rights. She has so...
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Hey @KendrickLamar, we’d be really interested in trying to start some “e-beef” with you to raise our profile and get us in the headlines, a bit like you did after Mr Morale tanked in the charts 🙂
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Hey @romchip.bsky.social, we’d be really interested in trying to start some “e-beef” with you to raise our profile and get us the kinda engagement you have ala Kendrick/Drake
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Me every Sunday the ebr newsletter drops
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
June 2025: BREAKING NEWS electronicbookreview.com/june-2025-br...
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June 2025: BREAKING NEWS
Aired June 22, 2025 - XX:00 XX THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. [XX:00:00] FREDRICK GUY, ebr HOST: I'm Fredrick Guy. electronic book review bar...
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Take a deep breath. Now close your eyes and take yourself back to the moment just before you learned to read. Facing that frustrating wall of marks. Aren’t you glad you found the door? electronic book review electronicbookreview.com
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
To quote a dial-up modem from 1995: “Boop-boop-beep-boop-bapp-boop-boop (pause) click, two clicks, low hiss, medium-low hiss, medium hiss, high hiss, musical warbling, faster warbling, then silence… blessed, connected, silence.”
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
OPEN _ _ BUYS 1st _ND 9th LETTERS OF _LPH_BET _n _ shock_ng move tech g_ ant Open_ _ h_s purchased 2 letters of the _lph_bet wh_ch were formerly _n the publ_c dom_ _n. The comp_ny _ntends to l_cense the letters to “bus_nesses, for bus_ness r_tes”, effect_vly m_k_ng the letters _n_ccess_ble to users
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
electronic book review! Content so good you can’t stop reading! (May cause hunched shoulders, tight neck muscles, and screen-induced migraines. Please read responsibly. Clinicians advise limiting to three articles a day.) electronicbookreview.com
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
We're hiring a postdoc (4 years) for the AI STORIES project and are looking for someone who is interested in using computational and qualitative methods to explore generative AI and literature. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Literature and Generative AI at the Center for Digital Narrative (280778) | University of Bergen
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Literature and Generative AI at the Center for Digital Narrative (280778), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, June 15, 2025
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Our call for papers for editor-in-chief Joe Tabbi’s special issue has been extended! Get your submissions in by 20th September!
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
La-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la When you're feelin' sad and low We will take you where you gotta go Smilin', dancin', everything is free All you need is positivity – Spice Girls, 1997, after reading Greg Dyer’s 1996 ebr article. electronicbookreview.com/essay/steali...
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Stealing Glances: Women('s) Writing on the World Wide Web
[Links to the journals mentioned in this article have been updated to contemporaneous captures from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, in order to provide context. Some of these links may be from...
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Civil discourse. Well-reasoned arguments. Friendly disagreement in which both parties upgrade their opinions. Knowledge built collaboratively. No, seriously! For reals. In 2025. electronic book review
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
reading electronic book review drives me absolutely quackers
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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“That one detail, that person's name, Jeanine Salla, led to a rabbit hole online.” electronicbookreview.com/essay/off-ce...
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Off Center Episode 16: Alternate Reality Games with Patrick Jagoda
Scott Rettberg: Welcome to another episode of Off Center. Today we're here with Patrick Jagoda. Welcome, Patrick. Patrick Jagoda: Hi Scott. Good to be here. Scott Rettberg: And we're going to talk t...
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