Comments on LBernier at tribune.com

[Doug Millison]

There's nothing  unique about what Mr. Siegel claims to have done.
Self-publishing has a long history. Many authors, under contract to
commercial publishers, write, design, produce and deliver their books ready
for printing, especially in the non-fiction, how-to domain -- I'm working
on such a project right no). And, there have been many books that basically
grab, condense, edit, re-write material from the Internet, or integrate it
with original writing.  What's really amusing is his claim to have invented
a new art form, and his proposal that what he's doing might be the next
evolutionary step beyond what Thomas Pynchon is doing. That's gave me the
biggest smile I'd had all day, up until I found and promptly bought a copy
of Mason & Dixon at my local (Berkeley) independent bookseller this
afternoon...

>On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Jules Siegel wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> Pynchon aside, "Lineland" is notable for the following:
>>
>> [1] It may be the first book that has originated from e-mail correspondence.
>> I will appreciate hearing about any others.
>> [...]
>
>There is a book out which consists entirely of e-mail correspondence,
>though in this case it's entirely fictional.  I can't recall the title at
>the moment, but it's by Nick Bantock, the guy who did the _Griffin and
>Sabine_ series of books.
>
>Joe

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"A kind of side-effect of verse as a memory-storage system is speed: the
ability to compress tremendous amounts of emotion and cognition into a
little space. That is poetry." -- Robert Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laureate.