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  1. The legendary John Oakes on new publishing models: http://www.huffingtonpost.c...
  2. RT @nicholasbirns Kinsella's POSTCOLONIAL out with my intro http://www.papertigermedia....
  3. @Eventmechanics Wu Ming's historical novels reanimate a forgotten archive.
  4. Asked readers to form group 'The 15' to read unsolicited manuscripts sent to Wu Ming. Some now published.
  5. Website publishes stuff that readers write. Songs, art by readers on the author's site. Author embrace of fanfic.
  6. Wu MIng does net newsletter to 13,000 readers. Communities of readers, some of whom also become writers.
  7. Filtering of memory. Wu MIng put in its novels what is forgotten and distorted. http://www.manituana.com/
  8. @jennyholzer: PROBLEMS CAN ONLY CAUSE TOO MUCH THINKING.
  9. RT @academicdave: "forgiveness is easier to get than permission"
  10. Historical novel can still fill in the gaps and represent the totality, which history writing can't do: http://www.manituana.com/
  11. Manituana intentionally an allegory about the wars of the 2000s. http://www.manituana.com/
  12. Novel Q also response to Pope's attempt to unite the faiths. Books about the great schisms.
  13. The novel Q as European take on how to write something like American Tabloid (James Ellory).
  14. "We respect Oulipo, but we play a different sport." Wu not avant garde, but popular.
  15. Hari Kunzru: "There must be disputes - you're writers." Wu Ming: "Then we raise the stakes."
  16. Each person writes a chapter solo, then rotate the rewrites thru the group: http://www.manituana.com/
  17. "lumps of narrative matter start to form." Wu Ming 1: http://www.manituana.com/
  18. Collective novel-writing, Wu MIng style. Research 1st, then improvised around the table.
  19. Altai, sequel to Q, in Italian only for now, just released there. Written after loss of member from the group.
  20. Jonathan Swift and John Gay wrote about the London 'Mohawks'.