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We post hundreds of links on @fsg_books each month. Here’s a look at which ones received the most recent attention. (more…)

We post hundreds of links on @fsg_books. Here’s a look at which ones received the most clicks in the past four weeks. (Discounting our own Favorite Reads from 2011 feature, which people really, really liked.)

• “King of the Hyperpolyglots,” The Morning News
• “Why Authors Tweet,” The New York Times Book Review
• “Why Does Art Have to Be Mainstream to Be Significant? An Interview with Jonathan Galassi,” The Economist‘s Prospero Blog
• “The Most Anticipated Books of 2012,” The Millions
• “Flavorpill’s Most Anticipated Books of 2012,” Flavorpill
  
• “Concept Art from the Film Adaptation of Cloud Atlas,” io9
• “The Channeling of the Novel,” The New York Times Book Review
  

It may seem foolish to start a literary journal at a time when fewer people are reading books, and doomsayers fill column inches with “death of literature” jeremiads. But Andy Hunter and Scott Lindenbaum have developed a new approach that seems to work: find great short fiction and get it to the people wherever they are. They’re also producing a number of more experimental approaches to narrative and technology that… well, we’ll let Andy tell you himself.

-Ryan Chapman

Chapman: Give us a brief overview of Electric Literature and how you distribute the work to readers.

Andy Hunter: Electric Literature was created as an optimistic response to the fear many were feeling in the face of a changing medium: what the obsolescence of the printed word meant, specifically, for literary writing.
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