And that's a wrap.

Earlier this year, The Puritan, an illustrious Toronto lit zine that has been kind enough to publish a couple of my stories in the past (ahem and ahem), asked me if I'd curate their blog for a month. My job was to come up with a theme, rope about ten other people into writing posts around that theme, and cobble together three of my own pieces. The subject, in a nutshell, was the position, evolution, and viability of (print) literature in the twenty-first century. The whole thing went down in October—perhaps I should have said something about it earlier?

Well, here's the whole kaboodle, then. My three pieces were:

• Introduction: Post-Print Culture and the Questionable Relevance of Literature
• Digital Communitarianism, The Great Gatsby, and Half-Life
• Epilogue: It's the End of the World as We Know It Again, and I Still Feel Fine

And here are my lovely and talented contributors!

• Gary Chandler on digitization and the renewal of literature!
• Anne DeCusastis on Twine!
• Andrea Grassi on the technology as the intermediary between writer and reader!
• Eric Freeze on a conversation about reading at Heathrow Airport!
• Shalene Gupta on the death of the novel, the rebirth of the novel, and biscuits!
• A Self-Aware Swarm of Bees (Ian Murdock) offers some tips for writers!
• Julienne Isaacs on Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy!
• Taras Tymoshenko on webcomics and new modes of storytelling!
• E. Martin Nolan on hip hop as post-print poetry!
• Chris Curley on publishing's dead, everything sucks, let's keep writing!

In related news, I have a short story called "Katherine" in the new issue of Four Chambers. It's behind a paywall (you have to buy the magazine), but come on, support the arts. The editors have characterized my story as "gnarly," which was indeed what I was going for.