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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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Telling Tales: Shaping Artists' Myths | ebr

β€œTabbi obsessively records the types of beer, or food, ordered at their meetings, and most annoyingly how much everything costs.”

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β€œFirst 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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Talking Back to the Owners of the World | ebr

β€œEach day that passes leaves you more confused about this stew, let alone the recipe that produced it.”

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The Body Sings | ebr

β€œDrive 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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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.

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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Gastropoetics | ebr

β€œRandomly selected guests were invited to sit for an evening of dinner and drinks at an off-site house, while the β€œaudience” watched via livestream.”

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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…

β€œDuck, 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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[β€œIf 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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When Error Rates Fail: Digital Humanities Concepts as a Guide for Electronic Literature Research | ebr

…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.

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Karl Steel’s How To Make A Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages | ebr

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 β€œgamey” piece of meat – that their hosts must have slyly served them roadkill?

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Literary Texts as Cognitive Assemblages: The Case of Electronic Literature | ebr

…when Danuta Fjellestad and I met HeldΓ©n, Jonson, and Jesper Olsson at a Stockholm restaurant for dinner and a demonstration of Evolution…

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Lynne Tillman's Turbulent Thinking | ebr

…the description of the depressed man’s behavior at a dinner party as a tropism in Madame Realism (1984)

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On Itinerant | ebr

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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Devoted to Fake | ebr

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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Moving Through Me as I Move | ebr

Hayles, N. Katherine (2000). Commentary section of β€œThe Dinner Party.” Riding the Meridian 2, no. 1 (Spring 2000)

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Card Shark and Thespis | ebr

Was Captain Cook considered a deity, or merely an unwelcome dinner guest?

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The Selling of E-The People | ebr

Sometimes I think about a Dairy Queen where we stopped one night for dinner out outside of Midland-Odessa.

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Revolution 2: An Interview with Mark Z. Danielewski | ebr

So: Mao said, β€œA revolution is not a dinner party”

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The Question of the Animal | ebr

American society remains unabashedly anthropocentric in terms of its treatment of animals at meal time

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An Interview with Harry Mathews | ebr

One three-course dinner eaten late in the evening after the fatigue of giving a lecture? Ordering lamb chops at Maxim’s?

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Anatomizing the Language of Love: An Interview with Lee Siegel | ebr

…Chasen’s restaurant in Beverly Hills one night when Nabokov and Stanley Kubrick are having dinner there.

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10.07.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Querying the Connoisseur of Chaos | ebr

During the reception and the dinner, other facets of Stevens emerged…

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Liberation Hurts: An Interview with Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek The following interview with Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek took place on the morning of September 29, 2003 in the Palmer House Hilton, a Gilded Age-era hotel in downtown Chicago. In the hotel's opulent lobby, it was e...

…once I had dinner with Richard Rorty… electronicbookreview.com/essay/libera...

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I’m just not sure I want to speak as β€˜me’ or maybe impersonate a human instead

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A Review of Interpreting Meat In Interpreting Meat, Duncan addresses the important and yet undertheorized role of meat in the overall picture of relations between humans and animals. As a ubiquitous and ordinary product, meat carr...

Do you eat meat? Why does it matter? As a free-ranging hen, singing louder than a sperm whale, and the one well-versed in training cocky neural networks I may have 3 pennies to add to the discussion.

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Bare-Naked Ladies: The Bad Girls of the Postfeminist Nineties About halfway through the 1994 film Bad Girls, Anita Crown (Mary Stuart Masterson), a young widow, discovers that she is no longer entitled to a claim on her deceased husband's land rights. She has so...

my dad and my uncle were massive fans of the Bare-Naked Ladies

they’re both dead now

anyway, here’s an article with a fun pun title:

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06.07.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey @KendrickLamar, we’d be really interested in trying to start some β€œe-beef” with you to raise our profile and get us in the headlines, a bit like you did after Mr Morale tanked in the charts πŸ™‚

04.07.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey @romchip.bsky.social, we’d be really interested in trying to start some β€œe-beef” with you to raise our profile and get us the kinda engagement you have ala Kendrick/Drake

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Me every Sunday the ebr newsletter drops

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June 2025: BREAKING NEWS Aired June 22, 2025 - XX:00 XX THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. [XX:00:00] FREDRICK GUY, ebr HOST: I'm Fredrick Guy. electronic book review bar...

June 2025: BREAKING NEWS

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