Slashdot | The Novel as Software

An Anonymous Patron sends us this post from Slashdot about an interesting new literary development. From the article:


“Former English professor Eric Brown has published the first work in what he claims is a new literary category called the ‘digital epistolary novel’, or DEN. ‘Intimacies’, based on an 18th century novel, requires the DEN 1.2 software. The program’s interface has windows for mock e-mail, instant messaging, Web browser and pager, through which the narrative unfolds. For those wishing to create their own works in this genre, Mr. Brown is marketing composition software called DEN WriterWare.”


For more info see this article from the New York Times (free reg required).