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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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electronic book review @electronicbr.bsky.social · May 19
Our call for papers for editor-in-chief Joe Tabbi’s special issue has been extended! Get your submissions in by 20th September!
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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
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Was Captain Cook considered a deity, or merely an unwelcome dinner guest?

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Card Shark and Thespis | ebr
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July 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Sometimes I think about a Dairy Queen where we stopped one night for dinner out outside of Midland-Odessa.

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The Selling of E-The People | ebr
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July 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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So: Mao said, “A revolution is not a dinner party”

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Revolution 2: An Interview with Mark Z. Danielewski | ebr
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July 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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American society remains unabashedly anthropocentric in terms of its treatment of animals at meal time

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The Question of the Animal | ebr
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July 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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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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An Interview with Harry Mathews | ebr
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July 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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…Chasen’s restaurant in Beverly Hills one night when Nabokov and Stanley Kubrick are having dinner there.

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Anatomizing the Language of Love: An Interview with Lee Siegel | ebr
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July 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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During the reception and the dinner, other facets of Stevens emerged…

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Querying the Connoisseur of Chaos | ebr
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July 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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…once I had dinner with Richard Rorty… electronicbookreview.com/essay/libera...
Liberation Hurts: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek
The following interview with Slavoj Žižek 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...
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July 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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I’m just not sure I want to speak as ‘me’ or maybe impersonate a human instead
July 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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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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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...
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July 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM