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Subject:  What To Read by Camille Renshaw
Date: March 2, 2001
From: munchkin

An author that has been UTTERLY ignored by mainstream (but is as high quality as any literary author I've ever read) is Michael Shea. While most of his work can be designated as genre (fantasy/horror, such as his WFA winner, 'Nifft the Lean') the range and depth of his writing can best be experienced by reading 'Polyphemus' (a collection of his short
stories published by Arkham House).

I think that, if you a little Michael Shea, you will recommend him in your next 'What To Read.'

Michael Hansen
Eureka CA

Subject: Adelaide Penguin in Warmer Seas by Anca Vlasopolos
Date: March 7, 2001
From: Artindade
 
I do not know what the hell the author is suggesting, her actual words of sewers, streets, plasticine etc. is entirely out of context with the title. Once again a very pretentious, bland appearance of free verse.

A. Trindade
New York.
 

Subject:  What To Read by Camille Renshaw
Date: March 8, 2001
From: Marjorie C. Luesebrink

Your new issue of Pif is wonderful.  Pif is always a delight to read! You are doing so much to introduce folks to
e-literature - and doing it with excellence.

I also wanted to thank you for your nice entry about *Califia* in the What to Read feature! Your audience is a curious and active one, and I hope that some of them will be inspired to read it.

Marjorie C. Luesebrink
aka M.D. Coverley
to see what's going on in Electronic Literature visit ELO <http://eliterature.org>
 

Subject: Report from Ebook World 2000 by Tom Hartman
Date:  March 10, 2001
From: Brant Deneneo

To whom it conscerns,

I dislike the idea of Ebooks. REAL books take nothing more than understadning a human language to read. The conscept of turning a page is alot simpler and quicker than, turning on your pocket reader, and then turning on a program than opening up what ever Ebook. A REAL book is easy, no batteries, no eye damaging monitor, lighter weight, no putting out money I can't afford to for a little palm sized computer. You pick a REAL book up, you ope it up to the page you bookmarked and that's it.
 

Subject: Bulkhead Edited by Curtis M. Meyer - Reviewed by Tom Hartman
Date: March 12, 2001
From: Curtis Meyer

Besides making it painfully obvious that he has based his "review" on guidelines and three poems alone, Tom Hartman has spelled Bulk Head as "Bulkhead" throughout.

As it's too late to choose a competent reviewer (and publish a fair and complete critique), could you please correct the spelling of our magazine's name?

Thank you,
Curtis Meyer
Editor of Bulk Head (two words)
Bulk Head:  Laxative of the Literary Mind 
http://www.bulkhead.org/
Bridge Burner's Publishing  http://www.bridgeburners.com/

Subject: Results and Prospects by Walter Bargen
Date: March 15, 2001
From: boadicea.two

My mother in law dated Trotsky for a week in NY, the week before he left for Leningrad. Apparently, she was in revolt against her british-army trained father ... I laugh in memory of my socialist arguments against Katherine, who by the time I knew her, was staunchly conservative and vehemently angry at ... the man who got away??? I enjoyed the poem very much. Ah. VIVA Las Revolutions!!!

Regards, Boadicea
 

Subject: Adelaide Penguins in Warmer Seas by Anca Vlasopolos
Date: March 27, 2001
From: Ivy

Wonderful poem, both lucid and hallucinatory. Thank you, Anca.

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