Great Books Made Small: The Rise of Twitterature

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TWO STUDENTS at the University of Chicago have gotten themselves a book deal, in which they squish works of classic literature — Dante, Shakespeare, J.K. Rowling — into twenty 140-character sentences. They call it "Twitterature." We call it "The Death of Culture," or maybe "They Had Cliff Notes When We Were Children, Guys."

Ugh.

If you want a less horrible Twitter/literature convergence, look at the Twittered Ulysses, created this Bloomsday. Rather than condensing the story down into 20 lines, these guys twittered a section of the book from the point of views of various characters. Start here or here.

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