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>Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 14:35:27 -0700
>To: Alt-X <[log in to unmask]>
>From: [log in to unmask] (Alt-X)
>Subject: Summer Updates at Alt-X!
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>
>July 17, 1997
>
>http://www.altx.com
>
>The Alt-X Online Publishing Network announces
>the following new updates:
>
>
>The site's new sponsor's include:
>
>The Book of Lazarus, a novel by Richard Grossman,
>which the Village Voice just called
>"an exceptional feat of choreography and a radical
>vision for the possibilities of fiction."
>
>The Electronic Reprints of Raymond Federman's
>VOICE IN THE CLOSET and Ronald Sukenick's OUT.
>These two Postmodern Classics are out-of-print
>but have been creatively redesigned to bring some of
>America's most important literary treasures to the
>new generation of computer-literate readers.
>
>---
>
>New on Alt-X:
>
>Alt-X Publisher Mark Amerika's latest Amerika On-Line column,
>*Surf-Sample-Manipulate: The Pseudo-Autobiography of A
>Work-In-Progress*, talks about the methodological impetus
>behind the 1.0 version of his made-for-the-Web, hypermedia
>project GRAMMATRON! This work has already been featured in
>The New York Times, MSNBC's The Site, Wired, Time-Warner's
>Pathfinder and Die Zeit. The Australian just called it "the
>world's most ambitious cybernovel" -- is this the end of
>Avant-Pop as we know it? Or just the beginning?
>
>Our Hyper-X area, focusing on web-based hypermedia art
>projects, features The 1997 Hyper-X Network Installation,
>presently showcasing the recent work of Jacques Servin,
>Bobby Rabyd, Eugene Thacker and more.  Also featured here
>is our exclusive interview with hypertext theorist and
>art historian George Landow.
>
>The _electronic book review_ has a new issue called
>*(electro)poetics* and features the journal's first hypertext
>essays with John Cayley's "Why Did People Make Things Like This?"
>and Wendy Battin's "Schoen Tell" -- also be sure to check out
>Harry Mathews' essay on Oulipian translation poetics and view
>ebr's first supplement by "thumbing through" the Javascripted W(ebr),
>a group of scholarly essays that contextualize ebr's continued focus on
>materialities and media theory.
>
>Our Interzones section is still the hottest international
>writing space on the Net: we just put up new material from
>our contributors in Australia including Linda Marie Walker
>(with media theorist Gregory Ulmer), Brenda Ludeman, Teri
>Hoskin, Peter Bishop and M. Tawa. We're also using this
>occasion to launch three new Alt-X features, Trace Reddell's
>wild critifictional trip through a world he calls
>Pharmakopolis, an extensive hit of Barracuda-Love Energy from
>the makers of the The Post-Feminist Playground and a new music
>column called Mediated Presence.
>
>Our Black Ice fiction section highlights the most radical
>writers of our time! Our newest selections feature writing
>from Richard Grossman's new novel _The Book of Lazarus_, a new
>short story from Bruce Benderson and an excerpt from
>Lily James' upcoming book _The Great Taste of Straight
>People_, to be published by FC2/Black Ice Books. We also have
>an active archive of controversial avant-pop fiction from all
>over the planet, including Jeffrey DeShell's _S&M_, D.N. Stuefloten's
>_Mexico Trilogy_ and Tristan Tormino's _CAUTION: Sharp Objects_,
>as well as Black Ice Classics from Stacey Levine, Bayard Johnson,
>Matthew Stadler, Susan Shapiro and Bob Flanagan!!!
>
>Our power-packed interview section, The Write Stuff, features
>interviews with ground-breaking artists, writers, theorists
>and activists like Avital Ronell, Rikki Ducornet, Curtis White,
>Paul Krassner, Doug Rice, Geert Lovinck, Leslie Marmon Silko,
>Sadie Plant, Terry Southern, Marcos Novak, Kathy Acker, Mark
>Leyner, Gregory Ulmer and an online chat with hypertext pioneers
>Jay Bolter, Jane Yellowlees Douglas and Jim Rosenberg!
>
>___
>
>Alt-X has been receiving continuous awards and recognitions
>through its almost 4-year online-publishing history, including:
>
>"The best site on the web for cutting-edge fiction,
>criticism and hypertext..." Details
>
>"An insurgent cell in the heart of the vast digicosmos of
>corporate info-spamming and vapid techno-babble...its unique
>value to writers and readers alike lies in the remarkable quality
>of the work already posted there." Utne Reader
>
>"The literary publishing model of the future..."  Publishers Weekly
>
>"Brush shoulders with dissident post-punk literati while
>perusing new work from all corners of the belletristic, counterculture
>world...free-form essays on literature vis-a-vis computers, rock,
>and 'avant-pop' culture keep the energy high (closer to a poetry slam
>than a classroom) and intellectually provocative." Wired
>
>"The sub-pop of literature." SPIN
>
>"This is the future...Alt-X is redefining the publishing world in
>all sorts of ways." The Observer
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>"Visionary fiction...you can't go wrong."  The Web Magazine (Hot Five Picks)
>
>"The hottest literary broadcast on the World Wide Web!" San Francisco Bay
>Guardian
>
>___
>
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