The lecture above has since evolved into the article below...Jessica Pressman’s piece "The Aesthetic of Bookishness in the Twenty-first Century" discusses the way The Raw Shark Texts responds as a paper novel to new media and ‘the death of the book’.
The article appears in the next (fall) issue of the
Michigan Quarterly Review, which will be titled - “Bookishness: The New Fate of Reading in the Digital Age”.
I’ve been lucky enough to read Professor Pressman's article already – it’s very good and very interesting indeed. I'm hoping we may be able to provide extracts here at some point. In the meantime, do check it out.
S
