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Intertextual Community   12.12.2004, 9:58 PM

posted by kim white

When I read about Shelly Jackson's new project--to "publish" a story by tattooing each of its 2,095 words onto the body of a different person--I thought what a great idea, and I wondered if it might actually be telling us something about the direction books are going. As the digital book begins to emerge--glorious, ephemeral, and electric--are we going to feel compelled to make something even more intimate and rarified as counterpoint?

"Skin Literature"

Posted by kim white on December 12, 2004 09:58 PM
tags: experimental, hypertext, intertextuality, jackson, literature, narrative, publishing, story, tattoo

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