“For My Next Illusion I Will Use Wings”: Alex Epstein on literature and social media
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012Over at “The Outlet,” the blog of Electric Literature, Alex Epstein discusses his new experiment in publishing: putting his newest book up for free in its entirety on Facebook.
My new book, For My Next Illusion I Will Use Wings, will be published in print in Hebrew in a couple of months. But at the beginning of January 2012 I decided to try something new, and published a free digital copy of it on… Facebook.
The idea of publishing an entire new collection of very short stories on Facebook was, in part, an experiment to see how literature can become more social.
Read the rest here. And in celebration/solidarity, Electric Literature is also publishing some newly translated Epstein stories on their own Facebook page.
(Want more? May we suggest Epstein’s Lunar Savings Time and Blue Has No South, both available in print and (in Google’s ebookstore) ebook form (if not yet on Facebook…)?)


