Stockton Book Donation

This summer, I was down at Stockton to have lunch with Tom Kinsella. On my way in, I stopped at the library to donate some books I had read in classes while a student from 2001-2006. I thought it was a neat idea and Stockton's librarians were very interested. I would like to do the same at Monmouth someday too when I am back up in that area.

Here is a list of the books I donated:

  • The first Electronic Literature Organization collection CD

  • Kindred by Octavia Butler (African American Literature)

  • The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean (From Books To Movies)

  • Sexing The Cherry by Jeanette Winterson (Senior Seminar: Postmodernism)

  • Acid Free Bits by Nick Montfort

  • The Aspern Papers by Henry James (Readers, Writers, and Books)

  • The Life Of Pi by Yan Martel (Readers, Writers, and Books)

  • City Of Glass by Paul Auster (Senior Seminar: Postmodernism)

  • The Nietzsche Anthology (Moral Theories)

  • The Iliad (Homer)

  • New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (Senior Seminiar: Postmodernism)

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison (African American Literature)

  • The Odyssey (Homer)

  • Another Country by James Baldwin (African American Literature)

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Weekly Reader 4-9-12

  • Lifehacker takes a look at the next Ubuntu release. I had Ubuntu 10.11 on my work laptop for awhile; I really didn’t like it that much. I have moved completely to Linux Mint (11 at home, 12 at work).
  • The spring issue of The Quarterly Conversation has a number of interesting articles.
  • Katherine D. Harris on adding acknowledgement to your syllabus. I will have a post about this sometime in the summer.
  • Scott Rettberg on the Electronic Literature Organization’s archives.

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    Two New Publications From The ELO

    Via Scott Rettberg, GTxA, and the Electronic Literature Organization itself, I am happy and very proud to pass along word that there are two new publications available from the ELO.  I will let the ELO’s own descriptions speak for themselves:

    N. Katherine Hayles’s “Electronic Literature: What Is It?” establishes a foundation for understanding e-lit in its various forms and differentiates creative e-lit from other types of digital materials. This primer serves the twin purposes of reaching general readers and serving students and institutional audiences by providing descriptions of major characteristics of electronic literature and reflections on the nature of the field. This piece will also appear as the introductory chapter of Hayles’s book Electronic Literature: Playing, Interpreting, and Teaching (coming from Notre Dame Press in fall 2007). The book will also include the CD-ROM of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One — a compendium of 60 digital works of poetry and prose, published by the ELO in October 2006.

    Joseph Tabbi’s “Setting a Direction for the Directory: Toward a Semantic Literary Web” outlines and analyzes the critical issues relating to the description and classification of e-lit. Tabbi describes an approach that will allow the ELO Directory and other digital resources to be more useful, maintainable, transparent, and integrated with evolving technologies. The work organizes the terms of the problem into a call for an overall strategy of editorial and community-driven discourse about e-lit that will also be dependent on metadata solutions that are convergent with those described and implemented in other ELO publications.

    I was very impressed by Hayles’ keynote address last month at the ELO’s symposium.  I look forward to reading both of these new publications.