The folks over at Electric Literature are serializing a story written by Rick Moody expressly for Twittering. As one of their editors explains:
To the best of our knowledge, Rick's story is the first work of fiction written expressly for Twitter by a major literary author.
The microserialization™ of Rick's story will take place on every co-publisher's Twitter feed from Monday, November 30th through Wednesday December 2nd. Tweets will appear every ten minutes from 10am until 6:30pm.
Moody's story is broken into 153 bursts of 140 characters or less, each clearly labored over with a precision and lyricism that reveals the surprising literary potential of the tweet. "It really was like writing Haiku," Rick told us. We believe he has taken something that could be seen as gimmicky - "Twitter-fiction" - and created something transcendent.
Follow Copper Nickel on Twitter, where we will be re-tweeting the story as part of a large chain for the next few days...
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