Mon, March 15, 2010
Logo
Fiction

Michael Cunningham and Lydia Millet Animated

Last month we posted about Electric Literature’s interesting video ad for Jim Shepard’s short story (a trailer for a literary short story, you ask? Well, click and watch if you don’t believe me. Jeez.)

Now they have a new project: Animating single sentences from their authors’ works. First up are sentences from Lydia Millet (”Sometimes he wished he could gather all the dogs he loved most and walk off the end of the world with them.”) and Michael Cunningham (”Peter tried to murder his brother only once…”) with animation by Luca Diperro and Jonathan Ashley:

Lincoln Michel

Lincoln Michel’s fiction and criticism appear in The Oxford American, The Believer, Mississippi Review, Bookforum, and elsewhere. He is a co-editor of Gigantic magazine and keeps a personal ...
Read more about Lincoln Michel ->

Share/Save/Bookmark Print This Post


From Our Partners...
Get our Newsletter
  1. Is Your Workplace as Rough as The Arctic?
  2. Jamie Jungers Wins Howard Stern's Tiger Woods Beauty Pageant; Reveals Tiger's Penis Size
  3. Ben Roethlisberger Lawyers Up; Sexual Assault Charges Examined on Interwebs
  4. "The Ghost Writer" Review
  5. What Do You MEAN You're Not Going to College?
  6. Do Republican Senators Hate Unemployed Americans? Seems Like It...
  7. Smart Men are Monogamous
  8. The Five Books of Nomar
  9. Why Pay $1,000 to Hang With Canseco When You Can Insult him for Free?
  10. Our Educational System is Total Bullshit - Here's Why...