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electronic book review
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ebr is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal of critical writing produced and published by the emergent digital literary network. Digital futures of literature, theory, criticism and the arts.
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Dear readers and followers, I wish this was a long letter addressing some mundane concerns about our neighbors; but, it sadly isn't. Instead, today I ask you, what is it that you want to see more in ebr? You can drop us an email or write a comment below 🧐
September 8, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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Quick question to everyone: how should we categorize a remake of an iconic 40s bag in the 80s? Is it a retro, a vintage, or both: a retrintage (yes, I made this word up)?
Anyway, this week's reading is by Will Luers: electronicbookreview.com/publications...
Platforms,Tools and the Vernacular Imaginary | ebr
After having lived through three generations of electronic literature, and having experienced pre-web, web, and post-web literary periods, Will Luers takes a step back and advocates an "independent di...
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August 26, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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SoMe Editor back from the holidays! But that was not the only news today...
ebr is starting a Substack, and we would love it if you want to drop a short review or a what's on your mind content as contribution. If anyone is interested, we will have our eyes on
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August 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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Some time ago we introduced the short-form review, and in our Summer issue you can see the first example by Jack Drabenstadt: electronicbookreview.com/publications...
We invite you for collab in ebr fashion, shaping this form as the start of a conversation rather than a complete statement.
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July 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Recently, I had a discussion with Deena Larsen where she invited everyone to share a piece of e-lit review on Wikipedia. Read her call for action here: electronicbookreview.com/publications...
<H1>Electronic Literature and Wikipedia: A Call to ActIon</H1> | ebr
If electronic literature does not exist in Wikipedia, it does not exist for AI or search engines either. Larsen issues an urgent call for writers, scholars, and readers to become Wikipedia editors bef...
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July 3, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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June 22, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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Made it to my seat at the movie theatre, it wasn't that crazy to be lost. Proudly announce that I have not be eaten by my subconscious and am working on the upcoming issue for ebr, have you checked our previous publications yet? electronicbookreview.com
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June 16, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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Seeing The Backrooms today, hoping to find my way out of these endless beige-yellow corridors to get to my seat at the movie theatre. May ask you to send help later. electronicbookreview.com/publications...
Lost in The Backrooms [or How I Learned to Love the Liminal] | ebr
Experimental storyteller and digital artist Mez Breeze explores the liminal spaces of The Backrooms, a found footage web series which is based on a popular creepypasta of the same name. In doing so, B...
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June 5, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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Steve Tomasula, whose brilliant writing invites us to ouch I hurt my texting thumb sorry ouch just a second OW dang … invites us to invest … tigate … in the relarrionshib btweeb bind and body
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May 29, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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I assume you thought "the admin forgot the password", or something like that. New editor and admin here, who apparently struggles with, what do the younger audience call it?... social media? 🫠

Our new issue is out for almost a month now, check it out: electronicbookreview.com
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May 20, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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“Tabbi obsessively records the types of beer, or food, ordered at their meetings, and most annoyingly how much everything costs.”

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Telling Tales: Shaping Artists' Myths | ebr
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July 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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“First stop Midwest tour, Normal, Illinois. Dinner at Curt White's. Tabouli, falafel with tahini, vegetarian lasagna, fresh french bread and sections of blood oranges for dessert.”

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July 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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“Each day that passes leaves you more confused about this stew, let alone the recipe that produced it.”

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Talking Back to the Owners of the World | ebr
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July 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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“Drive a Buick, fly Alaska Airlines in Boeing jets, slather Heinz ketchup over every meal while admiring paintings done in Du Pont acrylics”

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The Body Sings | ebr
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July 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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To celebrate 30 years of experimental open-access publishing at the electronic book review < @electronicbr.bsky.social > I wrote, coded and designed the site ebr@30, featuring Zoom interviews of co-editors and contributors, along with selected essays and ephemera.

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ebr@30 | Celebrating 30 Years of Experimental Publishing
An interactive history of the electronic book review (ebr), marking 30 years of digital literary innovation, collaborative editing, and networked scholarship.
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July 14, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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“Randomly selected guests were invited to sit for an evening of dinner and drinks at an off-site house, while the “audience” watched via livestream.”

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Gastropoetics | ebr
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July 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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“Duck, Duck, Rabbit” - Animal Biscuits

250g chilled unsalted butter, chopped
2 1/2 cups plain flour
3/4 cup (165g) caster sugar
1 egg
ICING:
1 1/2 cup (75g) icing sugar, sifted
1 1/2 tabsp boiling water

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Duck, Duck, Rabbit
It’s been a miserable rainy day in Brisbane today. The boys were bored silly so we made and decorated biscuits. If you have a food processor you are going to love this oh, so simple biscuit r…
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July 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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[“If you don't know Duck-Rabbit, well, you should :-) especially if you like dark beers at all. They make one of the best milk stouts around…”

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July 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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…set in a countryside home, where the focal/player character has been invited to an upper-crust dinner party. The end of the evening inevitably reveals that some of the characters are members of a cult, and the player character has not been invited to dinner for entirely innocent reasons.
When Error Rates Fail: Digital Humanities Concepts as a Guide for Electronic Literature Research | ebr
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July 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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How many of us have been privy, voluntarily or not, to the post-dinner party joke – made by guests who have politely managed to eat an unusually grisly or “gamey” piece of meat – that their hosts must have slyly served them roadkill?

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Karl Steel’s How To Make A Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages | ebr
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July 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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…when Danuta Fjellestad and I met Heldén, Jonson, and Jesper Olsson at a Stockholm restaurant for dinner and a demonstration of Evolution…

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Literary Texts as Cognitive Assemblages: The Case of Electronic Literature | ebr
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July 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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…the description of the depressed man’s behavior at a dinner party as a tropism in Madame Realism (1984)

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Lynne Tillman's Turbulent Thinking | ebr
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July 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Rueb: A dinner party, the table set – each plate a luminous circle of reflection, a bright face of hope and anticipation.

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On Itinerant | ebr
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July 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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For example, if you are having a meal with your romantic partner and you receive a phone call from your ex, the phone call is noise, interruption. When you go back to having dinner with your current flame, assuming you do, the situation is more complex…

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Devoted to Fake | ebr
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July 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Hayles, N. Katherine (2000). Commentary section of “The Dinner Party.” Riding the Meridian 2, no. 1 (Spring 2000)

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Moving Through Me as I Move | ebr
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July 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM