netcessary literature
Hypertexts, e-poetry, and netcessary* literature
compiled by Jessy Randall Paper-based hypertexts: |
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quick access to lots of examples:
The HTML Review archives
Electronic Literature Organization: Collections
Annie Abrahams: Wishes
Atomic Antelope and Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland iPad app
ARTE Experience: Type:Rider (inexpensive ios game)
Avoision: Desire Bot
Caroline Bergvall: Noþ[thorn]ing
Natalie Bookchin: The Intruder
Amaranth Borsuk: Abra (free ios app with Ian Hatcher), The Deletionist, Rainbot
Todd Boss and Angela Kassube: Motion Poems (short films of poems by Robert Bly, Jane Hirschfield, and others)
Aaron Cohick: Floating / Days
Liza Daly: Harmonia
William Gibson: Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)
Peter Howard: Midwinter Fair (plain and simple hypertext)
Daniel C. Howe and Aya Karpinska: No Time Machine
Michael Joyce, afternoon: a story (information on the first hypertext novel)
Luers / Smith / Dean Novelling ("recombinant digital novel that employs text, video and sound")
Taylor Mali: Killing the Speech (text/film/rant/comedy)
Tim Minchin: Storm (animated film)
Nick Monfort, Taroko Gorge
Juhani Paaso: Story of the Lost Dot (free Alice in Wonderland game)
Claudia Rankine and John Lucas: Situations (one example, search YouTube for more)
Paisley Rekdal: West: A Translation
Ricepirate: DotDotDot (animation of a voicetrack of a review of a game)
Geoff Ryman: 253: a novel for the internet in seven cars and a crash (1990s hypertext novel)
Brian Kim Stefans: The Dreamlife of Letters
Philipp Stollenmayer: Supertype (inexpensive ios game)
Stephanie Strickland and Ian Hatcher: House of Trust (generative poem)
Dan Waber: Strings
Bryan Thao Worra, The Dream Highway of Ms. Mannivongsa, "experimental surreal choose-your-own-adventure" version "drawing on traditional Lao and Southeast Asian mythology and legends, pop culture, and more."
Perhaps related in some way to digital literature, perhaps not: altered books / book-related-art by various book artists, Thomas Allen, Ellie Brown, Brian Dettmer, Zach Gage, Guy Laramie, Lori Nix, Dieter Roth's Literaturwurst, Robert The, Miriam Schaer, and Tona Wilson. Books that destroy themselves: Zach Gage's Antagonistic Books: Curiosity; self-blackening book by Camille Leproust and Andres Ayerbe.
Poets and Writers lit mags database, http://www.pw.org/literary_magazines (free)
Duotrope's Digest, http://www.duotrope.com/index.aspx (free trial, monthly fee)
Web Del Sol's old (2003?) top-fifty list, http://webdelsol.com/index-new-magazines2.htm
*Netcessary literature is literature for which the internet is necessary. It is related to, but distinct from, flarf. I, Jessy Randall, invented the term in 2001 (see left-hand column of this page). It has not entered the lexicon.
maintained by Special Collections; last revised, 9-2026, jr.
