writing under constraint
Toward a General Theory of the Constraint
Bernardo Schiavetta: a definition (in 2000 words)
Fed Ex Un Ltd
Jan Baetens reviews the Raymond Federman Recyclopedia, a book whose humour - and evident bad taste - raise it above its own formidable constraints.
The Procedural Poetries of Joan Retallack
Brian Lennon considers the aesthetic that Retallack has evolved out of a cybernetic sensibility - a formalism that does not impose authoritarian codes or repressive orders, but rather hacks a pattern out of the sheer data of everyday life: directories, menus, phone books, indexes, encyclopedias, and archives.
Harry Mathews’s Al Gore Rhythms: A Re-viewing of Tlooth, Cigarettes, and The Journalist
Paul Harris rediscovers the senior American member of Oulipo on the occasion of three new reprints from The Dalkey Archive Press.
Alire: A Relentless Literary Investigation
Phillippe Bootz gives an account of the longest standing web-based literary journal in France.
Translation by James Stevens
An Inter(e)view with Ben Marcus
Stacey Levine on the occasion of Dalkey Archive's reprinting of The Age of Wire and String