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Riffing on Books

Literary blog of multimedia riffs by California new media author Terry Bailey. Multimedia responses to great things she reads, fun travelogues of her reading journeys. Her Light 1.0 podcast a hit on iTunes; she is currently writing an electronic memoir.
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A Brief Vacation

Dec 2, 2009
Well, it is actually no vacation. But I didn’t want my readers to think I had abandoned them. I am in the last two weeks of my MFA program, and all my time is being consumed by that right now. I sent my thesis to the printer yesterday, and now I have...

Part III: Two-Bit Words, Academics v Guerrilla Artists and Digitally Influenced Print Books

Nov 9, 2009
For my next look at academic writing contrasted with “two-bit” vocabulary of writers of nonfiction, I explored the text of Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary by new media theorist N. Katherine Hayles. This was a painful reading...

Coming: Foer and animals. But first: last installment on two-bit words

Nov 9, 2009
Well, the synchronicity scientists would nod an “I told you so” to the fact that I went to buy a WEB magazine at Vroman’s in Pasadena on Saturday and learned that Jonathan Safran Foer would be there the next day to present his new book, Eating Animals....

Part II: Hocketing and Translating Academic Writing to Accessible English

Oct 11, 2009
above:  an example of a modern version of hocketing in an excerpt from Meredith Monk’s “Hocket” from “Facing North” (1990), performed by Emily Eagen and Peter Sciscioli, members of The M6, at Symphony Space in New York, March...

Part I: Chabon's Maps and Legends and Hayle's Electronic Literature meet Two-Bit Words and Pygmy Musicians

Oct 4, 2009
During an online reading conference, for which I was the discussion leader (have I mentioned that I am about to complete an MFA in new media writing from Antioch University? – more on that later), several complained about the use of “obscure”...


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