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1. Laurie Halse Anderson-Fever 1793
2. Paul Auster-Travels In The Scriptorium
3. John Barth-Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction, 1984 – 1994
4. John Barth-On With The Story: Stories
5. A.C. Bradley-Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
6. Judith Butler-Gender Trouble
7. Italo Calvino-The Baron In The Trees
8. Italo Calvino-Difficult Loves
9. Italo Calvino-Numbers In The Dark & Other Stories
10. Italo Calvino-T Zero
11. Albert Camus-The Myth Of Sisyphus & Other Essays
12. Junot Diaz-The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
13. Junot Diaz-Drown
14. Terry Eagleton-Literary Theory
15. Umberto Eco-The Name Of The Rose
16. Michel Foucault-History Of Sexuality: Volume One
17. Gary Gutting-Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
18. Homer-Iliad
19. David Hume-Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion & The Posthumous Essays
20. George Landow-Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization
21. Milorad Pavic-Dictionary Of The Khazars
22. Plato-The Symposium
23. Michael Pollan-The Omnivore’s Dilemma
24. Susan Sontag-Illness As Metaphor & Aids and Its Metaphors
25. Gilbert Sorrentino-Aberration Of Starlight
26. Robert Louis Stevenson-Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (read by TOM BAKER)
27. Bram Stoker-Dracula
28. Virginia Woolf-The Second Common Reader
29. Virginia Woolf-Three Guineas
30. Epic of Gilgamesh

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• Papers from perthDAC 2007, including Jill Walker-Rettberg, Christy Dena, and Mary Flanagan all look very interesting.
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• Amanda French’s creative use of Ada Lovelace Day to discuss Mary Shelley.  I really like her argument that Shelley was the first science fiction novelist.
• Having read a lot of John Barth’s essays in the past year, I found Conversational Reading’s post discussing suggestions for reading his fiction to be quite timely.
• Emily Short on the role of agency in Interactive Fiction.
• Lauren Elkin discusses the new collection of Susan Sontag’s journals in the new issue of The Quarterly Conversation.

This week’s video doesn’t need much explanation. Here is Black Sabbath playing War Pigs in 1970.

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Via the excellent On Purpose comes word that the OED is going to be an Internet based dictionary after its third printing:

Biggest development? The third edition of the 20-volume set of the Oxford English Dictionary will also be its last! After publication of “the first comprehensive and up-to-date edition of the OED in one alphabetical sequence since the original edition of 1928?, the OED will (figuratively) close all 20 of its covers and move on to a bigger and brighter future as an internet-only text.

A few years ago I linked to a Susan Sontag interview in The Atlantic Monthly where she praised the idea of having the OED on a CD (which is funny considering she bashed electronic literature in a speech before her death). The CD is quickly becoming an archaic, out of date, method for distribution. I am glad the OED realizes this and has begun the transition to publishing on the Internet only. The more accessible it becomes, the better. I only wish a subscription came without such a steep price.

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Recently read: A Barthes Reader edited by Susan Sontag.

I have mixed feelings about this collection. While a lot of Barthes’ most essential writing is certainly in here, some of the excerpts and articles are not what I would have picked for a reader (I would tend to stick with the essentials…perhaps? That’s what I have always thought a reader should be…) trying to introduce Barthes to a new reader. Sontag admits in her introduction that she basically picked her favorites. This is fine I suppose, but I would have made different choices.

To the new reader I would suggest Image, Music, Text to begin engaging with Barthes.

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Recently read: At The Same Time: Essays & Speeches by Susan Sontag.

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• The New York Review Of Books reviews the newest collection of Susan Sontag’s work.

• Matthew Kirschenbaum’s is now available for preorders at Amazon.

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