Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 Subject: work work work From: berto_alto@tank20.com To: You Dear You, Awwwwww . . . I notice from your message header that you’re writing me from work on Saturday! I thought you were trying for a real weekend this week. Poor you! (I think it’s Saturday, isn’t it?) Up here in…

*Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 * Subject: rooster duty *From: berto_alto@tank20.com * To: You Dear You, I traded some information (7th grade genetics) for a new blue Renaissance Crayon! Fair Warning whispers Good morning. And I really mean “good morning”! beckons you closer In fact, I feel it’s my responsibility to warn you that I…

*Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 * Subject: glimpses From: berto_alto@tank20.com To: You Dear You, Trying to Start on an “Up” Note You shoulda seen the huge eerie gorgeous triangular herds of birds ricocheting around the narrow valley rippling and squawking and shitting this morning. (I’m trying to start on an “Up” Note before the whining…

Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 Subject: best news From: berto_alto@tank20.com To: You DearYou, Sorry if your spam-blocker has been resisting these e-mails Many doctrinaire e-mail servers block out e-mail from centuries where neo-classicism is on the rise! (By Mercurius!) What’s It Like Back Here? You ask for glimpses. Well . . . everything is totally…

Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 Subject:…um… “hello” From: berto_alto@tank20.com To: You Dated this day, May the . . . probably about . . . *stares at stars, counts on fingers carry the two . . . about May the 13th, right? Dear . . . you, . . . er . . . remember me…

For the next week or so, I’ll be posting selected missives from two email novels, both written in 2002: Rob Wittig’s Blue Company and my own Kind of Blue. Blue Company is a novel composed of email messages from Berto, a lovesick copywriter transferred to 14th Century Italy who addressed letters to his romantic correspondent…

France has a long history of experimentation in digital literature, generative narrative and combinatory poetics. Owing in part to a tradition of constrained writing practices, the most celebrated exemplars of which are the Oulipo, French authors have worked at using the capabilities of the computer as an aspect of their writing practice for more than…

Nameless Films is a collaboration between fiction writer Sandy Florian and Talan Memmott. The videos are short, experimental narrative works … the method is ‘godardian’ by default, dealing with improvisation and happenstance … the narratives are compressed, emphasizing an embedded poetics of the moment … this series of Nameless Film productions does not produce narratives…

From Scott Rettberg: Talan Memmott is well known as an electronic literature author, for works such as Lexia to Peplexia and Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)](Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)]). A California native, Talan lives in Sweden where he teaches digital media at Blekinge Institute of Technology. In recent years, Talan has also been producing a number…

1. Her pants are stone and she is all grey, shadow spilling everywhere, metallic shimmering. The way she sits, sinking a submarine. She’s full of covert spying eyes. She wears a grey sweater. Sitting in that cobalt chair, it’s blueness firecrackers. a. Certainly she isn’t the only female, but she’s the female I have chosen.…

“The squash is almost ready,” she says, when she hears me come in. “Go ahead and sit down.” As I enter the dining room I notice that my plate is half-covered with cheese, a huge pyramid of cheese, built with large cubes nearly two inches square. I stare at the cheese. She brings in the…