Epistolary Hypertext
Ever since that New York Times article about “Intimacies,” by Eric Brown, there has been a small murmur of discussion about it. Goggle occasionally points readers to my page as they look for more information about it, so I thought I would say a bit more about it.
My original comment was that I didn’t much like the idea of an epistolary hypertext because it doesn’t do anything that a regular novel cannot already do, and because this particular kind seems to focus on saying: “Look, people write e-mails, and they text message each other, and they talk to each other via instant messaging, and on their cell phones, and isn’t that cool!” on the other hand i would like to hear “hear is what people have had to say of substance” I don’t care if they wrote it in crayon.
With that notion in mind, I’m actually going to read the novel in question, now that I have the time, and I will post my comments along the way. If you would like to read any or all of it as well, you can go to a site with the balls to call itself great American novel I would also like to refer you, for a good reading along similar lines, to someone with the humanity to call herself Jill