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First Person: Introduction

Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin introduce First Person, an interactive, multi-player collaboration between ebr and the MIT Press.

Accretive Dreams, Junk Narrativity, & Orphaned Excess in Moderation

Lance Olsen reviews hypertext writing, past and present, by Robert Arellano.

Nothing Less and Nothing More: The Oulipo Compendium

Alain Vuillemin comprehends the compendium - a summing up of four decades of Oulipian activity.
Translation by James Stevens

The Pleasure (and Pain) of Link Poetics

Entering the cyberdebates, Scott Rettberg moves beyond technique and proposes a more generative approach to hypertext, in which an author's intention and poetic purpose have a role.

Writing the Paradigm

An overview of Gregory Ulmer's thought by Victor Vitanza.

&Now Conference Review

Late Breaking: William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Rob Wittig post from Notre Dame University on the &Now festival of writers and writing.

Reading Writing Space

Anne Burdick reads Jay David Bolter's Writing Space.