Cyber Seuss
URL: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/drseuss.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0796
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: Yes
Author: Jon Phillips
Chances are, sometime around age four or five, you begged your mom for a heaping plate of green eggs and ham. You had no idea what turned the eggs green, and you weren¹t too hip to the concept of pork products, but you wanted your green eggs and ham, gosh-darned it, because one Mr. Sam I Am didn¹t want his, and you knew he was missing out on some fancy eats. So your mom fried up some ham, and threw some spinach into some scrambled eggs, and served them to you on an enchanted platter. And then your mom tried food coloring in the eggs after your spinach sensors went off, and you ran screaming from the breakfast table. The object lesson behind *Green Eggs and Ham* is just one of many espoused by the late Ted Geisel, Dr. Seuss. Geisel died in 1991 at the age of 87, but his rhyming morality tales continue to influence kids worldwide. Geisel won a Pulitzer prize in 1984, and his 47 books are published in 18 languages. The entire Seussian phenomenon can be found at Cyber-Seuss, a site that offers hoospiferic helpings of Seuphonius triptitude. The site¹s main draw is its 15 online story books. You¹ll find standards like *How the Grinch Stole Christmas* and *Yertle the Turtle*, as well as more obscure tales like *The King¹s Stilts* and *Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose*. After you envelope yourself in nonsense words and delightful rhyming schemes, you can skip on over to obscure curios like Seuss-oriented ASCII art; a contest asking you to choose your favorite among The Grinch, his indefatigable doggie Max, and little Cindy Loo Who. There¹s also a sound file of the Grinch theme song (³You¹re a foul one, Mr. GrinchŠ²). The site deals in the type of minutiae one finds only on the Internet; to wit, in 1972, pundit Art Buchwald borrowed from Geisel the following sentiment: ³Richard M. Nixon, will you please go now! The time has come. The time is now. Just go. Go. Go! I don¹t care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow. Richard M. Nixon, will you please go now!² Indeed, Geisel was a man of moral and political conviction. Both children and adults will find much to learn from this endearing, whimsical and burgeoning Web site.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 18

Cyber Seuss
URL: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/drseuss.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0696
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: Yes
Author: Jon Phillips
Chances are sometime around the age of four or five, you begged your mom for a heaping plate of green eggs and ham. You had no idea what turned the eggs green, and you weren¹t too hip to the concept of pork products, but you wanted your green eggs and ham, gosh-darned it, because one Mr. Sam I Am didn¹t want his, and you knew he was missing out on some fancy eats. So your mom fried up some ham, and threw some spinach into some scrambled eggs, and served them to you on an enchanted platter. And then your mom tried food coloring in the eggs after your spinach sensors went off, and you ran screaming from the breakfast table like a child possessed. The object lesson behind *Green Eggs and Ham* is just one of many espoused by Ted Geisel, or Dr. Seuss. Geisel died in 1991 at the age of 87, but his rhyming morality tales continue to steady the character of international youth. Geisel won a Pulitzer prize in 1984, and his 47 books are published in 18 languages. The entire Seussian phenomenon can be found at Cyber-Seuss, a site that offers hoospiferic helpings of Seuphonius triptitude. The site¹s main draw is its 15 online story books. You¹ll find standards like *How the Grinch Stole Christmas* and *Yertle the Turtle*, as well as more obscure tales like *The King¹s Stilts* and *Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose*. After you envelope yourself in nonsense words and delightful rhyming schemes, you can skip on over to obscure curios like Seuss-oriented ASCII art; a contest asking you to choose your favorite among The Grinch, his indefatigable doggie Max, and little Cindy Loo Who; and a sound file of the Grinch theme song (³You¹re a foul one, Mr. GrinchŠ²). From here, the site investigates the type of minutiae one might only find on the Internet. In 1972, pundit Art Buchwald borrowed from Geisel the following sentiment: ³Richard M. Nixon, will you please go now! The time has come. The time is now. Just go. Go. Go! I don¹t care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow. Richard M. Nixon, will you please go now!² Indeed, Geisel was a man of moral and political conviction. Both children and adults will find much to learn from this endearing, whimsical and burgeoning Web site.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 18

The Internet Poetry Archive
URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/home.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: Wayne Cunningham
This very well-constructed and tastefully designed site features the work of living poets. Living poets are a rare breed, and should probably be on the endangered species list. I¹m sure this is why the site only had three of them (when I visited). Besides the sheer novelty of discovering living poets, visitors to the site can sample audio clips of the poets reading their poems. Somebody realized poetry is meant to come in through the ear, and not the eye. Will wonders never cease?
Overall Rating (out of 18): 18

Haiku for People
URL: http://www.oslonett.no/home/keitoy/haiku.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0496
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: Shel Kimen
You¹ll find answers to various haiku-related questions, and plenty of haikus by famous and not-so-famous poets. Nothing more. But that¹s OK. The poems are wonderful (for haiku aficionados, at least) and the How and What sections are informative, and should be useful for would-be haiku writers. The site is simple and to-the-point, accomplishing its intended goals. I like that.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 18

Seamus Heaney
URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/heaney/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0996
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: Ananda Nada
This site has all the simplicity of Heaney's poetry. A single photo of the smiling Nobel Laureate presides over a table of links. These lead you to poems spanning his entire career from book one to his most recent, *Seeing Things*. Each poem is complimented by a downloadable audio file of Heaney reading it in his resonant brogue. Another page provides an ample biographical sketch along with thoughtful annotations to the archive. The inclusion of the commencement speech Heaney delivered last year at UNC provides an alternative glimpse at the poet's wisdom.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 18

Blue Penny Quarterly
URL: http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/bpq/front-page.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 1096
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: Daniel Alarcon
This handsome page is a great place to start looking for that elusive literary element on the Internet. Unlike other literary magazines, Blue Penny Quarterly was not spawned by a hard copy magazine, and it¹s dedication to new media is evident: they not only present hypertext fiction and poetry, but run a literary discussion group at the Blue Kafé site. They also solicit submissions from anyone and everyone. BPQ is also planning a more high-tech poetry journal called New River. And while they exploit the current technology, BPQ remains respectful of good old fashioned writing and storytelling. This is one to bookmark.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 18

Literary Kicks
URL: http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/LitKicks.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 1096
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: Yes
Author: Patrick Joseph
Levi Asher, young father of three quit his day job as a C++ programmer on Wall Street and built a web site. Not just any Web site, Literary Kicks is a big, sprawling hypertext biography of The Beat Generation. A tight-knit literary movement after the fashion of The Lost Generation in Paris, The Beats have inspired readers ever since Jack Kerouac published his cross-country reverie, *On the Road* in 1957. For Levi Asher, miserable in the drudgery of his suit-and-tie position at J.P. Morgan, the siren song of The Beats was just too strong to resist. What is excellent about Literary Kicks and sets it apart from the hordes of online devotionals, is the extent of original material, most links referencing other points within the narrative rather than outside sites of dubious quality. To my mind, the popular mechanism of hyperlinks and cross-references is too often a dud; uneven and disruptive, as dismaying as it is edifying. It¹s put to good use here, however; the impulsive, non-linear quality of the navigation befitting the subject, the consistent voice keeping it fluid. Whatever thread you choose to follow, it¹s a bit like floating a different fork of the same river. Asher¹s reverence for his subject is apparent throughout his site. He has doubtless invested a lot of time (and a lot of himself) in the project, researching and writing about all the personalities in the beat milieu, as well as the cultural influences which helped shape them. Thankfully, though, his fanaticism is balanced with a healthy measure of criticism. Without being cynical about it, he acknowledges his idols¹ obvious faults, as husbands, as lovers, as fathers. One of the more interesting segments of the project, in fact, is his interview with John Cassady, the son of countercultural hero/paragon, Neal Cassady. Asher is a writer himself. You¹ll find his own fiction at <http://www.levity.com/brooklyn/Queensboro.html>. Called *The Queensboro Ballads*, it¹s an ³experimental novel in the form of a folk rock album.² I admit I didn¹t get too far along the A-side of the experiment, but one thing was apparent from the outset: This is autobiography beneath a thin veneer of fiction, ala Sal Paradise, a.k.a. Jack Deluoz, a.k.a. Jack Kerouac. It¹s a decent effort, the prose competent but a little flat. The real attraction is Literary Kicks. Whether you¹ve dabbled in Beat literature, read everything from A to Z, or are looking for a good introduction, the site is a wonderful experience, and one of the few sites I can think of that remains fresh even after return visits.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 18

Simon Says
URL: http://www.simonsays.com/
Category: Literature
Issue: 1196
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: Rachel Saidman
Simon Says is Simon and Schuster's slick new home on the net. Designed by Razorfish, this site has a sleek, modern look, and is easy to navigate, with spiffy technological touches (real audio, multimedia product demos, rotating billboards). The focus of the site is on the reader, though, with lots of opportunities for interactivity. Reader reviews, bulletin board and chats are all features that try to attract repeat visitors. Of special note are the Reading Groups, monthly discussions on general subjects led by experienced facilitators. Design and content touches like these elevate this site from the merely corporate to a lively hub for book lovers.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 18

Oxford Book of English Verse
URL: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/obev/
Category: Literature
Issue: 1296
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: Daniel Alarcon
You can find it right here, whatever it is. By title, by poet, by date, by first line. Search this word-for-word unabridged on-line version of the Oxford Book of English Verse for the poem you need. The collection is immense, representing five centuries of refinement and expression. There are plenty of surprises to be found, unknown poets languishing in the shadow of Shakespeare, Keats, and Donne, . The indices are impressive, but browsing is the best way to appreciate this site; you just might rediscover your love of poetry and the written word.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 18

Spiritual Cockroach Engenderment Museum
URL: http://www.dca.net/~kmon
Category: Literature
Issue: 1296
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: Daniel Alarcon
You gotta love these fools (and I use that as a term of endearment) who have enough free time to put up the really random Web sites. Without these guys the Web would have no character, none of the quirky, free-wheeling style that brings a smile to your face. Case in point: the Spiritual Cockroach Engenderment Museum, dedicated to the work of the obscure (with a capital O) German surrealist K. Ungeheur. Here¹s a writer made for the new medium: his writings make no sense, you see, but each piece is succinct and funny as hell. The site gives an analysis Numero-linguistics, Ungeheur's technique of transforming sentences into mathematical equations and back again. Using the technique, ³The dog has fleas" becomes "Your head is very little". This page is a trip. And there are plenty of links to more surrealist sites on the Web. Once you've tried it, you'll definitely want more.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 18

The Infinite Goof
URL: http://www.rain.org/~da5e/tom_robbins.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
It is a curious phenomena: nearly every existentially-aware, self-reflective female I know adores Tom Robbins. And few, if any, of the similarly-enlightened males I know can stand him. This is a Tom Robbins fan site, but is in no way a typical fan page. Of course there is a bibliography, critical essays, interviews, and related links -- but that¹s just the beginning. This is a fan site with JAVA objects, and a VRML version too! At last, an adoring fan space that is entertaining AND fawning. Bonus points for not using frames! I hope my exclamatory prose conveys my delight with this site!
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

William Faulkner on the Web
URL: http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0696
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Wayne Bremser
Yoknapatawpha County comes alive in John B. Padgett's tribute to one of America's greatest writers. The design is tasteful and clean, the links work, and the content is there ‹ lots of it. If you have any interest in Faulkner, this site will make your week. There could still be more text from the books, but a pretty thorough bibliogrpahy is included, with art to boot. BLUE LIGHT
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

Into the Wardrobe The C S Lewis WWW Page
URL: http://www.cache.net/~john/cslewis/index.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0696
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: Patrick Joseph
For all the folks who cut their teeth on the Narnia Chronicles and just can¹t get enough of C.S. Lewis¹s quasi-Christian fantasy lit, here it is: a site devoted to the Master. There¹s a daily Lewis quote -- updated religiously at 12 AM GMT -- plus downloadable images of Lewis, sound clips of Lewis, and well,...Lewis, Lewis, Lewis, everywhere you look. To paraphrase the creator of the site, this isn¹t just a place for fans, but a repository for all C.S. Lewis scholarship and marginalia. No surprise then that I was able to quickly satisfy my only curiousity; the ³C.S.² is for Clive Staples, nickname, Jack.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

Welcome to the 19CWWW
URL: http://www.clever.net/19cwww/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0696
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Patrick Joseph
The nineteenth century online seems kinda oxymoronic -- or should I say anachronistic? Nevertheless, this is what the Victorian Women Writer¹s site shoulda coulda woulda been but ain¹t. Slick of interface and deep of content, this one is more than just an electronic library. It also features art exhibits, graphics and a surprisingly active bulletin board where students of American Studies can post queries and comments. So while I¹m still dubious as to the usefulness of great chunks of text online (I might feel differently if I could search the text easily, via key word or somesuch) others apparently appreciate it and take advantage of it.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

Mississippi Review Web Edition
URL: http://sushi.st.usm.edu/~barthelm/index.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0796
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Patrick Joseph
Sometimes simple is better. Mississippi Review uses shaded rectangular boxes and a few diagonal lines to draw onlookers into its horizontal list of established writers. Set off by year and month of online publication, works consist of poetry, fiction, interviews and essays, just like the print version of the Mississippi Review. But unlike the magazine, which is a biyearly publication, the web site is a monthly. MRW promises to incorporate graphics, sound and video into the format soon. Features authors include Jamaica Kincaid, Dinty Moore, Leon Rooke, and Ian McEwan
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

Scrivenery Literary Awards
URL: http://www.hti.net/www/hwilliam/awards.htm
Category: Literature
Issue: 0796
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Diedra Ramsey
Here's one for English Lit. majors and prospective Jeopardy contestants. The Literary Awards section is part of Scrivenery's larger web site, which offers resources for fiction writers. The awards' site lists the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Awards for Fiction, The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Booker Prize. Answer: He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965. Question: Who is Michail A. Sholokhov, Alex?
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

SALON
URL: http://www.salon1999.com/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0796
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Unknown
A dynamic e-zine with headlines like "Bikers for Jesus," "X-rated: Agents Mulder and Scully bare all," and "Montana standoff: Coddling the kooks," SALON features non-fictional and fictional pieces. Aside from its features, SALON has a mailing list and an interactive Table Talk section. It is published every two weeks. SALON is entertaining, graphically pleasing, and informative. Where else could one find neurologist Oliver Sacks, author of "Awakenings," clad in a leather jacket and striking a *GQ* pose?
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

Toni Morrison
URL: http://www.en.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Morrison/home.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0796
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Diedra Ramsey
Toni Morrison, a visually pleasing web site, focuses largely on *Beloved*, the author's 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. However, there are also links to Morrison's biography, photographs, and short narratives on all of her works. It includes quotes from the author, speaking about her art and should provide a rich experience for both avid Morrison fans and newcomers alike.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

The Wild Wilde Web Welcome
URL: http://www.clients.anomtec.com/oscarwilde/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Wayne Cunningham
³To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.² ‹ Oscar Wilde A poet in the 19th century could not be successful by holing up in a garret and writing madly. A social dimension was required. Wit was required. A really good poet had to be able to show up at a party and say something, at least one sentence, that would be so very clever as to be repeated by more than one person, thereby assuring the poet¹s reputation. In the 20th century, wit was practiced by Dorothy Parker and the members of the Algonquin Round Table, but in recent times wit seems to have fallen in disfavor. Oscar Wilde was a master of wit, which is the focus of Michael Tidmus¹ Wild Wilde Web. Originally, Michael was just going to put a page on the Web of Wilde¹s witticisms, but he decided that there had to be some kind of contextualization, so the site expanded to include a biography, a list of Wilde¹s works, other people¹s quotes about Wilde, and links to Wilde-related sites on the web. The material on the Web site was salvaged from an exhibit Mr. Tidmus had taken part in called ³Serious Games: Interactive Images.² He chose to create an interactive piece about Wilde, using the paradigm of a Victorian parlor game. Some time later, he was asked to be ³the participating American artist in ArtAIDS (http://artaids.dcs.qmw.ac.uk:8001) ‹ a project of AIDS-related images that went online on World AIDS Day, 1994.² This introduction to HTML gave him the expertise to program the Wilde site. The graphics on the site are particularly exceptional, which is no wonder, since Mr. Tidmus has been a graphic designer since 1984. He says he ³spent seven years freelancing Apple Computer¹s advertising graphics for BBDO and Chiat-Day.² One of the most extensive areas on the site, and probably the most useful, is the bibliography section ‹ a list of books about or with references to Wilde. The only drawback is that these books should probably have been linked to some other online reference that provides further information about them. When I asked Mr. Tidmus what Wilde might have thought about the Web (a question I acknowledge is pretty stupid), he kindly replied, ³I think Oscar would have applauded the accessibility of knowledge and deplored the lack of beauty inherent in much Web design.²
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

The Beat Generation
URL: http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/topics/BeatGen.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0496
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: Shel Kimen
As a documentary site, it¹s fine ‹ other than a few presumptuous declarations like ³Walt Whitman, The Original Beat,² or, in reference to Columbia University, ³This grand old Ivy League university may not even want to be the birthplace of the Beat Generation.² (Come on, Columbia is as liberal as Ivy gets). This aside, the pages offer biographies and pictures of Beat heroes, presenting an informed and sensible historical perspective. It¹s slightly dry, which is unfortunate, as it unravels such creative writers.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

The Tech Classics Archive
URL: http://the-tech.mit.edu/Classics/index.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0896
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: MCM
From Aeschines to Xenophon, this site (maintained The Tech, MIT's student newspaper), offers a searchable archives of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman works. Nothing good on tv? Well why not plug in and peruse the Hippocratic Oath, or print out the entire Iliad and leave it on the coffee table. Browse the index by author, title, date or translator, and share your opinions with other classics-cravers via the commentary section. A real plus: The Tech has taken the big, bulky source files of these works, restyled them to be more readable and broken them down into smaller, downloadable chunks.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

Unlock The Cypher
URL: http://www.2launch.com/cypher/CYPHER.HTML
Category: Literature
Issue: 0896
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: MCM
In the introduction, The Cypher is described as an "Interactive Cybernovel," Readers follow three separate story lines (which take place in 999, 1900 and 1999) to uncover all the twisted, supernatural mysteries of Castle Ravenshim, piecing together the stories from a collection of graphics, sound files and text (they can even trade e-mail with the main characters). Slick, sleek and attractive, The Cypher is a state-of-the-art of online multimedia experience. Unfortunately, the prose is pretty darn pulpy and the characters are as deep as flattened 8-bit GIFs. In other words, this Cybernovel contains more cyber than novel-either a positive or a negative quality, depending on your priorities.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

Remote
URL: http://www.randomhouse.com/site/Remote/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0896
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: MCM
Remote is the electronic emissary for David Shields' novel of the same name (Random House, 1996). Like the book, the site is a collage of lists, essays, letters and other texts that reflect upon the disassociating nature of our hyped-up, high-speed, data-driven electronic society. The byproduct of this megamedia blitz is an ailment Shields calls "information sickness." At the site, you can share your dreams of Kurt Cobain, compose a bumper sticker, sample passages from the book, or review Shields' extensive literary resume. Dawdle in the data too long, however, and you might wind up with a bit of info sickness yourself.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

The Libyrinth
URL: http://www.microserve.net/~thequail/libyrinth/libyrinth.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0896
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: MCM
The Libyrinth looks at 20th century authors who deal with themes of the library ("symbolic of a multitudinous cross-referencing of resources") and the labyrinth ("symbolic of a prose style that employs many winding paths through a shifting veil of reality"). So far, there are complete sections on only four authors (Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, James Joyce and Gabriel Garcia Marquez), but they are well-researched, well-linked, and definitely deserving of the high-falutin' postmodernist characterizations quoted above. Look for Libyrinth sites focusing on Franz Kafka, Ken Kesey, Milorad Pavic, Gene Wolfe, and others in future months.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

The Complete Shakespeare
URL: http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0996
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: Ananda Nada
The plays and the poems are all here, unadorned and well-organized. Their conversion to html is thorough. Footnotes, for instance, are replaced by links to a glossary. In addition to the works, there's an effective bulletin board system (Hypernews) which gives devotees a forum in which to query each other. The current debate regarding "the Authority question" is especially lively. There's even a link to Bartlett's familiar Shakespearean quotations. Even though the search engine and the glossary could use some work, these pages remain an essential resource on the Web.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

Proust Said That
URL: http://www.well.com/user/vision/proust
Category: Literature
Issue: 0996
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Ananda Nada
Proust Said That may be the most radical project on the Web, devoted as it is to inspiring interest in a *Remembrance of Things Past*. The Marcel Proust Support Group is a boho San Francisco clan that formed to read the work in toto. P. Segal's loving documentation of their activities has made PST one of the most affecting literary sites around. Its elegant pages contain everything from Proust-inspired recipes and travelogues to the young Marcel's replies to the questionnaire that bears his name today. If you love Proust, you will adore these pages.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

Oyster Boy Review
URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/ob/index.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0996
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Patrick Joseph
Years back, when I was still too full of vinegar for my own good, I swore off all poetry as toothless and inane. All poets, I thought, were people who had nothing to say but insisted on saying it anyhow, touchy-feely types whose brains had flown South for the Winter and stayed there. As I got a little older, (around sixth grade, I guess), I made allowances for a special few: I read and liked a short list of poets that included Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and e.e. cummings. These days, I take a more charitable view of the form, stopping short of open-mike night at the corner cafe. I still require some screening. As such I was happy to discover this literary journal from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which boasts the work of poets with preposterously southern names, like Jeffrey Joe Nelson and Izzy Gage, not to mention some excellent poems with titles like, ³Songs for the Drunks,² ³Snakes among the Children,² and -- my favorite -- ³A Gorilla on Anti-depressants ain¹t no Good Gorilla at all.² *--And that Prozac did him wrong-- --That Prozac did him wrong, I¹m saying.* A lot of the work here has that kind of hard-boiled, mocking refrain to it , not to mention a distinctly southern rhythm. The great, half-strange charcoal illustrations add to that ambience. I have to admit, though, that what drew me in at first wasn¹t the poems at all, but a sub-page about Harry Crews, an old favorite and author of *A Feast of Snakes* and *All We Need of Hell*. Talk about hard-bitten prose, Crews¹ fiction is a fierce blend of the profound and the perverse, something between pure pulp and high lit, and the Crews page is one of the best author sites I¹ve seen on the Web. There¹s also a tribute page to the late Charles Bukowski, patron saint of gutter drunks and fist-fighting poets -- a carbon copy of the Crews page, really. Bukowski fans should check it out. But neither of these personalities make the site by themselves. As with most things, a literary journal is only as good as the sum of its parts. And in this case the parts are excellent. As of this review only four issues of the Oyster Boy Review are online, but I, for one, will check in as content increases.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

The Paris Review
URL: http://www.voyagerco.com/PR/
Category: Literature
Issue: 1096
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Daniel Alarcon
For five decades, the Paris Review has bee serving up cutting edge works by the world's most important writers; now it lends its considerable reputation to an eager online intellectuals. This site includes humor, interviews (many available in audio), poetry, fiction, etc. Many features have been expanded from the print version. You can also order t-shirts, back issues, and subscriptions for the real thing. The site is great looking, thanks the esteemed Voyager Company, but this the Paris review after all, so the real star is the writing: check out the opening paragraph fiction teasers and marvel at how precisely and beautifully language can be constructed. content: 3 aesthetic: 2.5 savvy: 2.5
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

Internet Poetry Archive
URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/ipa/
Category: Literature
Issue: 1096
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: Daniel Alarcon
The tendency, sometimes, is to judge a site based on what it could be, on what it promises to become. The Internet Poetry Archive is just such a spot. It has much potential to be a great source of information for all students of the written word. At the moment three poets are highlighted, including Nobel prize-winner Czelaw Milosz. What makes the IPA different from other sites is its open embrace of all the technology available. Listen to the poems in their original language and in translation, read a biography of each artist prepared by a literary scholar, hear what the poet has to say about the meaning of each piece. Graphics, when appropriate, are used to illuminate the subtle meanings of complex works, and short bibliographies encourage deeper study. The IPA promises to expand its database, and upgrade its tech to include video. Though still under construction, it promises to be great.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

The Next Savage State
URL: http://www.directnet.com/Crash/ScreamsAndWhispers/NewCensorship
Category: Literature
Issue: 1096
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Daniel Alarcon
The Next Savage State makes much of its claims of irreverence, anarchy, and total disinterest in the petty sensibilities of the conformist majority; but forget all that, it's just a showcase for great writers. I can say simply that everything I read here was top-notch, funny, and insightful. Andrei Codrescu (of NPR fame) now holds the record for the single longest piece I've ever read off a computer screen. Order a years worth of hard copies for $30. Or read it here for free. Enjoy.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

The Swagazine Rack
URL: http://mrlinux.durand.com/clark/swagazine/
Category: Literature
Issue: 1196
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Daniel Alarcon
Santa Barbara-area poets and writers bare their souls online. Swagazine was born from a BBS; back in the good old days, it seems the various contributors shared messages of such considerable talent that they decided to pool their efforts, take on the world, and start an Internet publication. Or so the story goes. Anyway, its nearly three years later, and there are two completed issues to show for it. The collected writings are sometimes entertaining, sometimes exasperating, and generally a lot better than average. Be sure to have a look at The Internet Insult Contest: Funny as hell. Every writer has got a handle dating back to the now defunct BBS and an attitude to match. A new issue should be out in late September or October. It¹s worth checking out.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

Virtual Emily
URL: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~emilypg/index1.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 1196
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Daniel Alarcon
Emily Dickinson, one of the more enigmatic figures in American literature, has her life deconstructed by the curators of Virtual Emily. With ample respect for the poet and the circumstances in which she created her art, V.E. offers any newcomer to Dickinson the background they will need to understand her truly remarkable contribution to modern poetry. The primary offering is chronological biography that divides her life into periods of productivity, depression, hope, and seclusion. The essays for each period are well-written and informative, supplemented by photographs of the poet and her family and even diagrams of her homestead in Amherst. There are also links to the works that made her posthumously famous.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

F. Scott Fitzgerald Centennial
URL: http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 1196
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Rachel Saidman
The University of South Carolina clearly has a special relationship with famed author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, housing the second-largest collection of his original texts and memorabilia (Princeton, his alma mater, is first). This site is a loving tribute to the author of *The Great Gatsby,* and worth a visit to anyone interested in American Literature. Information is well-organized and accessible, the graphics appropriately muted, reflecting the glamorous tragedy of Scott and Zelda's short lives. Don't miss the essay entitled "Princess Daily," which describes Sylvia Plath's margin scribblings and underlinings of The Great Gatsby.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

Civil War Love Letters
URL: http://scholar2.lib.vt.edu/spec/cwlove/cwlove.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 1296
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Daniel Alarcon
Reading these Civil War letters, you get a profound sense of men caught up in something beyond their control, looking for solace in the loved ones they left behind. A man writes to his wife, recounting their courtship with tenderness and nostalgia. Others let their worries spill onto the page; behind the nineteenth century formality of language, there is real anxiety, abandonment, and fear here. One man writes to say that the war has finally shown him that he won¹t live forever, that he should settle down and get married; "if you should meet any agreeable candidate let her know I'll be home soon". This is a great site for pondering history and human frailty.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 17

Electronic Beowulf Project
URL: http://portico.bl.uk/access/beowulf/electronic-beowulf.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: David Pescovitz
The original manuscript for Beowulf, the English masterpiece starring Grendel the monster, was badly damaged in a fire 200 years ago. Taking the remains out of its display case in the British Library for scholarly study is obviously not the best idea. But in a hint at the future of the library, we are given the Electronic Beowulf Project, focused on scanning and analyzing the parchment to create a complete digital version of the document for study. With tons of related research and articles being added constantly, the Electronic Beowulf Project is an example of electronic media¹s power to archive artifacts from the pre-digital era of the written word.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

Jack Vance Archive
URL: http://www.hw.nl/~remy/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: David Pescovitz
Fans of award-winning Sci Fi and Fantasy author Jack Vance will be in the Web world of their dreams after a visit to this site. The archive¹s comprehensive bibliography of Vance¹s published novels, short stories and collections is a much-needed resource for anyone familiar with the extremely prolific writer. Looking for a first edition of The Languages of Pao? A marketplace for rare Vance artifacts is under construction on the site and will surely be a welcome resource for the dedicated Vance collector, earthbound or otherwise.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

Book Lovers Fine Books and Literature
URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0696
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Patrick Joseph
A basic, but comprehensive set of links for the antiquarian book dealer, book collector, avid reader, et al., this site should be bookmarked by all those serious about their literature, arcane or otherwise. Assembled by a bibliophile from the Netherlands, it points to sites in both English and Dutch. As with browsing the shelves at your favorite bookstore, you are likely to while away hours and hours here in that peculiar dream state with the contemplation of all the books you¹ll never find time to read -- not if you live two hundred years. A splendid, if melancholy, pastime, that.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

NWHQ
URL: http://www.knosso.com/NWHQ/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0696
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Patrick Joseph
You have to be a little wary of anything that describes itself as being ³constructed somewhat like a labyrinth,² but my brief foray into this ³web-journal of hypertexted literature² was not so unrewarding as I expected it to be. In fact, most of the writing I encountered was actually pretty good, adventurous with the language and suited ( pace- and lengthwise) to the medium; maybe a little long on angst and short on inspiration, but good nonetheless. And the visuals weren¹t half bad either. And in the end, it¹s not even all that labyrinthine -- navigation back home is easy -- just a good read.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

The Master Works of Western Civilization
URL: http://www.eskimo.com/~masonw/gwwc.htm
Category: Literature
Issue: 0796
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Diedra Ramsey
Are you civilized? Are you sure? Well, for a crash course in the liberal arts without the tuition and fees, visit Mason West's home page. His is the mother of all syllabi! There are 31 printed pages worth of authors and their works here, many of which connect you via hyperlink to the content. Unfortunately, the site could use better organization. The lists, of which there are two, mainly feature ancient Greek, ancient Roman, European, and American works.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

Gabriel Garcia Marquez-Macondo
URL: http://www.microserve.net/~thequail/libyrinth/garcia.marquez.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0796
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Diedra Ramsey
In 1982, Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize for literature. A native of Colombia, he now lives in Mexico City and is considered a pioneer of style known as "magical realism." The site provides background information on the history of Colombia and examines how that history has influenced Marquez's fiction. It also includes notes on Marquez, a bibliography of his works, Marquez-related images and links to other Marquez Web sites.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

Life is a Joke
URL: http://www.netreach.net/people/bishop/lifejoke.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0796
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Diedra Ramsey
It's a large mail-order list of bizarre or comical literature. The title is a bit misleading. It is not a site of one-liners. One can find Your Revenge is in the Mail, a book about making someone's life hell by mail, for $10. Also, there are noted writers like William Vollman, author of *Whores for Gloria*, which is available in hard-cover for six dollars. There are even fan magazines on bouncing caskets and artwork dealing with "black blood," otherwise known as coffee. Nearly all items are under $20, and most items are under $10.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

WPA Life Histories
URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0796
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Diedra Ramsey
Originally a government-sponsored Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-40, this web site gives the history of the WPA and provides an excellent search engine to scour the some 2,900 works from that era. In the late '30s, more than 10,000 writers from across the country wrote biographies on Americans, of various ethnic and religious groups, occupations, and regions. The result is a first-hand glimpse of 1930¹s Americana.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

The Spenser Web: The Shepheardes Calender
URL: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~jntolva/shepcal.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Wayne Cunningham
The beauty of this site is that it shows how the Web can really enhance literary studies. Each page of Spenser¹s Shepheardes Calender can be viewed in one of four different versions, including a scanned copy of the original printing. To name the site ³The Spenser Web² is a little bit misleading, however, since it only has the one work. Also, getting through the first couple of pages is a little annoying, since the links are hidden at the very bottom of the pages.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

Virtual Henry
URL: http://sec-look.uiowa.edu/henry/preface.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Poor
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: Wayne Cunningham
Ah, the play made from the movie by Kenneth Brannagh, or was it Mel Gibson? Anyway, something like that. The full text of ³Henry V² is here, which should be enough in itself, but we are also demonstrating the powers of HTML. The text is annotated with hyperlinks, which is brilliant, and not only do the annotations have text, they also have pictures, so you can see, for example, what Henry V¹s father looked like.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

The Scoop Children's Book Reviews Home Page
URL: http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0896
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: MCM
This site is a must-hit for all teachers and any parents who want their children to read more than just the instructions on the Nintendo box. It features reviews of the latest in children's literature, plus a number of related sections dedicated to educating and entertaining young people: Educator Resource Center, Readers' Top Ten List, Library of Past Issues, Activity Center, and even a even a Scoop Chatroom. While some of these sections (the Activity Center, for instance) could use a content infusion, the overall quality of The Scoop's offerings should be a boon to book-loving families and teachers.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

Rats To Cats
URL: http://www.ratstocats.com/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0896
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: MCM
The Rats to Cats site Is an HTML Stack made by people Who think that cats smell Each page is a quatrain Of cruel denigration Insulting the honor Of the feline persuasion They don't like cat hygiene They don't like cat habits They find cats lethargic 'Cept when breeding like rabbits They claim cats are sneaky And evil and selfish That they'd gladly trade friendship For a mouthful of shellfish Each verse is portrayed By a well-rendered sketch To thoroughly illustrate The anti-cat kvetch This site will quite surely Drive cat lovers batty It's cute and amusing But a little bit catty.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

Zora Neale Hurston
URL: http://pages.prodigy.com/zora
Category: Literature
Issue: 0996
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Ananda Nada
Here's a welcome reminder of the literary prowess and charisma of a cultural pioneer. If you've never read anything by Hurston, follow the link to chapter one from *Their Eyes Were Watching God*. You can also browse a gallery of impressive photos or read from a wide-ranging, if uneven, selection of essays on the author. Whether you're a high school student or a Hurston scholar, this site is a good place to enrich yourself. A handy list of links will take you to sites relating to African-American art and culture.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

The Universe
URL: http://www.lm.com/~kalin/author.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0996
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Excellent
Site of the Month: No
Author: Ananda Nada
This labor of love is dedicated primarily to the French Surrealists. The splash page features a frantic shuffling of images of personalities from Michel Leiris and Robert Desnos to the ubiquitous Andre Breton. They and many others are briefly profiled next to an excerpt of their respective work. The anonymous web author behind these pages is revealed only in his or her admiration for Paul Valery, whose *Island of Xiphos* is rendered as a full-fledged interactive poem which they apparently find interesting enough to explore in depth.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

The Page at Pooh Corner
URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jmilne/pooh.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 1096
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Ananda Nada
Explore the strange intersections and happenstance that connect diverse characters like the English soldier who purchased an American black bear as a pet in 1914, named it after his hometown of Winnipeg and gave it to the London Zoo, where it became the favorite of author A.A. Milne's son, Christopher Robin. A secret history is anchored in these nicely laid-out pages, with everything from photos of the actual bear to a Milne family history and anecdotes regarding Disney's thwarted attempt to erase the cartoon's English accent. As a bonus, you get to study the lyrics of Kenny Loggins' disarming Pooh tunes.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

Epistrophy: Jazz in 20th Century Literature
URL: http://ie.uwindsor.ca/jazz/
Category: Literature
Issue: 1196
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Daniel Alarcon
The relationship between jazz and the written word has been a creative tension since day one. Jazz, with its improvised, headstrong ambition and its vast emotional palette has pushed authors of poetry and prose to explore new possibilities in their own medium. This site celebrates that artistic edge from all angles: the poetry of Langston Hughes, the scholarly essays from jazz historians, the frenetic prose of Kerouac. Amira Bakira examines the famed days of Minton¹s Playhouse at 134th St. in Harlem. Charles Mingus translates his musical ethos into a prose style all his own in excerpts from his autobiography *Beneath the Underdog*. Still under construction, look for more on the revolutionary free jazz/poetry of the late 1960¹s, and hopefully, more sound.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

Unofficial Henry Miller
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Word Salad
URL: http://www.interpath.net/~whealton/wordsalad.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 1196
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Rachel Saidman
Word Salad is an online poetry quarterly. This homespun site is not a graphic masterpiece, but has clearly been crafted by people who appreciate the written word. Each quarterly edition is made up of twenty to thirty poems, submitted by interested parties, and a Featured Artist Profile, with a biography and selected work of the author. The poetry ranges from short, rhymed verse to longer musings on life. There is something here for all types of poetry aficionados, and a genuine feeling of community.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

THE LAST DON
URL: http://www.randomhouse.com/lastdon/
Category: Literature
Issue: 1296
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Gary Barker
The Last Don* is a novel by Mario Puzo about -- surprise! -- the Mafia. This attractive site has four sections: The Players, Puzo Speaks, Puzo Profile, and Test Your Loyalty. The Players shows eight illustrations of characters from The Last Don. Each illustration is a button leading to a brief character bio. Puzo Speaks reprints part of an essay Puzo wrote in 1972 about writing *The Godfather* novel and script. Puzo Profile is a short piece written by Puzo's editor about what a cuddly grandfather type Puzo has become at the age of 75. Test Your Loyalty is a simple game.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 16

Todd's Great Big Stupendous Poetry Page
URL: http://bigdog.engr.arizona.edu/~harrist/poetry.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: David Pescovitz
Forget coffeehouses people, the Web is the new home for good (but too often really bad) poets: This page overflows with what Todd the poet calls his ³Random Poetry² and he deserves kudos for taking the DIY approach to publishing his verbiage. For a hint of what¹s in store, check out ³The,² a Todd masterwork that really touched me. Todd better be careful though. Some of his contributors may edge him out in the absurd poetry arena. Take ³Tablet Junker² from Amanda Parks for example: ³Michael Jacko / Is a wacko / He went smacko / In a cracko / Now he's backo / He gets slacko / I think his new album is okay.² Yeah... dig it.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/conrad/conrad.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
Heart of Darkness is one of the most dense and murky short stories ever written, and Coppola¹s Apocalypse Now is a marvelous film adaptation of the work. A trip down a river becomes a metaphor for a journey to the darkest places in the human soul, an exploration of those fragile structures upon which civilization is constructed. This site offers the entire text of Heart of Darkness, searchable by keyword. In addition, there is a link to one of the most complete Apocalypse Now fan sites. All Conrad fans should visit this site at least once, if only to grab the e-text of the story.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

The Papa Page
URL: http://www.ee.mcgill.ca/~nverever/hem/cover.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
Hemingway was a one-trick pony who drank away what little talent he did possess, but that isn¹t reason enough to dislike this page. No, the client-pull embedded in the opening page inspired my ire. It annoys me when my client requests a document without my permission; call me a control freak, but I prefer to make these decisions. A short biography, a bibliography, a variety of related links including one to Real Audio files of the Old Man himself, this is a typical fan page. This site is a solid, if unexciting, source of information on the bearded suicide.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

Steinbeck
URL: http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/srchome.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
Steinbeck¹s popularity among high school English teachers is only to his misfortune. There are too few instructors capable of placing Steinbeck¹s work within an historical context, and unfortunately, this site will do little to assist the individual trying to decipher Steinbeck and his catalog. Visitors find a bibliography, a timeline of his life, photos of the houses Steinbeck stayed in, and a few images of the landscapes in which the stories were set. Those researching Steinbeck¹s taste in dwelling places will enjoy this site; others should do a net search.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

Romantic Notions
URL: http://wwide.com/rnotions.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
³Who among us has not wondered...what if?² And so begins the online version of the Romantic Notions newsletter, a review of the latest in Angel, Ghost, Time Travel and Vampire romance stories. Numerous book reviews and a brief interview with an author did nothing to inspire my curiosity, but those with an interest in tales of eternal love overcoming the shackles of time itself may find this site rewarding. I am compelled to point out the background color in use here, one of the most tasteful--and subject appropriate--which I have encountered on the Web.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

Horror In Literature
URL: http://131.252.12.160/~caseyh/horror/book.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
Clive Barker? Stephen King? Young punks, both of them. When it comes to horror only one name matters: H.P. Lovecraft. To my delight, I did find Lovecraft on this site, as well as many other personal favorites. Billing itself as a horror archive, this space offers a list of someone-or-another¹s Top 100 horror books, a large collection of links to author-related home pages, and a few excerpts from recent novels. Of greatest interest are the visitor submissions, offering a chance to peruse the bad and worse in surfer-submitted horror. You should never pass up a chance to read another¹s horror fiction.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

Neveryóna
URL: http://www.organic.com/Staff/ogd/neveryona/index.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
I am sick and tired of pretentious book-snobs maligning the integrity of the science-fiction and fantasy genre. I hate loud-mouthed know-it-alls who consider Proust the standard by which all text should be judged. This is a Samuel Delany fan page, featuring the requisite bibliography and critical pieces. Though there is nothing particularly striking about the layout or content of the site, the page creator seems articulate, a rare quality among fan site maintainers. Maybe there is cause to hope the Web may someday improve in quality.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

William Gibson's yard show
URL: http://www.vkool.com/gibson/index.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
Cyberpunk is nothing but a rehashed 1930¹s futurism coupled with a fetishizing of Intel¹s latest products. Espousing this creed, I approach with trepidation anything vaguely connected to William Gibson. As I wandered the site my unease turned to confusion, then curiosity, and finally bemusement. I¹m not certain what any of this has to do with Gibson, but I like it. Peculiar images of keyboard playing sociopaths and detailed critiques of 50¹s era Atomic Disintegrator toys vie for the visitor¹s attention. Admittedly there are more than a few empty links, but the oddity factor is more than enough to excuse the mess.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

Victorian Women Writers
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0696
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Patrick Joseph
No men. No Edwardians. Just Victorian women writers. Which ought to tell you that this is a site by and for those with an academic interest in that bygone era of corsets, courting gentlemen and purple prose. But don¹t be fooled; there¹s a political edge, oft-overlooked, with a few radical feminist writers here. Apparently the ³project² in the title refers to the ongoing effort to assemble literary works of this type online (for the moment the content is limited). Be warned, these are big files. While you *could* download them to your hard drive, are you really going to read it all afterwards? Well, maybe you are...
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

American Literature
URL: http://www.en.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/amlit.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0696
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Patrick Joseph
This is a survey course in American Literature, digitally preserved, complete with student papers and class discussions. I¹d bet the compositions have been plagiarized by now ‹ poached by unscrupulous college kids. As for the discussions, they¹re full of chat room-style interference and non sequiturs (Teacher: Helen, I liked your comment about Hester Prynne as feminist martyr, but I wonder if Hawthorne would have seen it that way? Butthead: This sucks, Beavis. Beavis: Yeah, he he.) Good for a laugh, maybe, but not much else. Butthead¹s right.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

The Papa Page
URL: http://www.ee.mcgill.ca/~nverever/hem/pindex.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0696
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Patrick Joseph
Another shrine to old Hem, another devotional on the web. I¹m cool to this one without knowing exactly why. Content-wise it seems rich enough, with links to other resources. The interface is clean, simple, and straightforward -- like Ernie¹s prose. Good enough. Still, something seems to be lacking. The biography is pretty sparse, for one thing. And the images are generally the ones you¹ve seen a hundred times; the man is an icon, after all. And maybe that¹s my problem with it; all the attention Hemingway gets just seems to further the self-promoting and self-mythologizing agenda he himself had. So why bother?
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

What the Thunder Said T.S Eliot
URL: http://www.usl.edu/Departments/English/authors/eliot/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0696
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Patrick Joseph
This site has something I think every literary site should have in order to be truly useful: a search engine. After all, the best thing about having text served up digitally is the ability to cross-reference and index and hyperlink the hell out of it. That way it becomes a pretty spiff tool for students and scholars; otherwise you¹re just stuck with text on your monitor, the appeal of which I for one don¹t get. Aside from the search engine though, the site is pretty run-of-the-mill. Fair, but by no means outstanding. With time and increased content, however, it should improve considerably.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

THOMAS WOLFE WEB PAGE
URL: http://www.cms.uncwil.edu/~connelly/wolfe.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0696
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Patrick Joseph
Aside from a photographic tour (be prepared to wait) of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial -- the ³Old Kentucky Home² in Asheville, N.C. -- there are no real surprises here. The biographical and critical information on Wolfe is brief but well-presented, as are the few choice quotes culled from the writer¹s work. The bibliography is just a skeleton -- just titles, no synopses or further links. Devotees may want to jump on the Thomas Wolfe Commemorative Stamp Campaign (oh boy) and stay up on the annual Thomas Wolfe Festival (wow), but for most visitors, this site will be a one-time fly-by.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

Weblit
URL: http://www.sojourn.com/~rothfder/web/weblit.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0696
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Patrick Joseph
This site provides a pretty exhaustive list of links to things literary on the web. It also rates some of those sites -- a little too charitably methinks. In addition to indexing individual web pages, it also indexes photographic images as pertain to literary figures, as well as downloadable texts available on the Web. As such, a pretty decent resource, I spose. There are some minor technical glitches, however, (clicking on the alphabetal index got me an advertisement for sojourn.com, the server, and who needs that?) and a backlog of URL¹s which have yet to be reviewed.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

SOMA-web
URL: http://www.primenet.com/~matthew/huxmain.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0796
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Diedra Ramsey
Matthew, the site's manager, makes one mistake in his web site on English novelist Aldous Huxley (1894-1963): He reverses the print, making the background color black and most of the text white. Unfortunately, when the information is sent to the printer, the machine interprets everything as white, thereby making the print invisible. Nevertheless, Matthew provides an entertaining look at the novelist best known for Brave New World, the 1932 satirical work about a society controlled by technology. Also, it contains a hypnotic photo of Huxley and links to other Huxley-related sites.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

The Blake Multimedia Project
URL: http://luigi.calpoly.edu/Marx/Blake/blakeproject.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Poor
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Wayne Cunningham
The contention of Professor Steven Marx is that the work of Blake can¹t be properly understood from his texts. The originals were all done as illuminated manuscripts with calligraphy that would make any modern graphic designer envious. Professor Marx has designed a hypercard stack with reproductions of the original pages and annotations. This site gives just a taste of the stack, and directions on how to get a hold of it. Of course, this will be limited to Macintosh users.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

Vergil's Home Page
URL: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~joef/vergil/home.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Wayne Cunningham
Latin fans will find this page quite a treat, since most of the on-location texts by Vergil are in the original. For all of us translation wimps, there are links to English versions of the Aeneid and the Georgics. While the page is tastefully designed, it isn¹t very well-organized. Its plethora of links, such as texts, bibliography, pictures, and related articles, are all just thrown together on one page.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

The Consummate Hitchhiker's Guide
URL: http://conan.ids.net/~nedry/42.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0496
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Shel Kimen
Here you¹ll find extensive information on Douglas Adams and the ever-growing Hitchhikers Guide To The Universe cybercult. This is quite a database of related resources. But be warned, young travelers, the collection is merely a stockpile of hyperlinks, most of which flash the yellow ³new² starburst logo; no original content here. Links are poorly organized, and the layout is distasteful. But it¹s still a comprehensive list for those who want to skip the likes of Yahoo and Lycos.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

H P Lovecraft
URL: http://www.primenet.com/~dloucks/hplpage.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: David Pescovitz
Cult horror novelist HP Lovecraft has found a worthy hidden home in this well designed and clear site. Of course a complete list of Lovecraft¹s tales is presented, but the most interesting elements of this site are the ³readings² of Lovecraft¹s work. With the author¹s numerous references to numerous medieval texts containing secrets that ³man was not meant to know,² it can be difficult to discern between the actual dark manuscripts of our past and those that only have a history in Lovecraft¹s mind. Put simply, the Necronomicon is fiction. (We think. heh, heh, heh...)
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

The PIXPage
URL: http://www.kpix.com/index.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0896
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Ananda Nada
The PIXPage is the online extension of San Francisco's KPIX Television and Radio stations. Its remote control image-map points to the latest Bay Area news, traffic and weather reports. There's also a searchable index of the Eyewitness News archives and a page that loads continuously updated photos from a studio camera that pans the skyline from the Golden Gate to the Bay Bridge. For those interested in Bay Area jobs, PIXPage also sponsors JobSmart, an online employment service for Northern California. All said, this site is a multi-linked, well-designed gateway to mainstream San Francisco news and then some.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
URL: http://www.io.org/~buff/slang.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0896
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Poor
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: MCM
So you want to talk like a roscoe-toting flatfoot with a beezer full of tiger's milk? Well check into the Hardboiled Slang Glossary and in no time you'll be ready to chin down with hard goons and wise-headed shamuses. Culled from the classics of hardboiled detective fiction (works by Hammett, Spillane, Chandler and others), this lead-thrower's lexicon is a good read itself. No fancy graphics, no special search engines, just phrase/definition, phrase/definition, phrase/definition. Like any square joe, this glossary cuts right to the chase and leaves the song and dance to flimflammers and wrong numbers.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

The Online Literature Library
URL: http://www.literature.org/
Category: Literature
Issue: 1096
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Daniel Alarcon
In honor of the "sedate and quiet" atmosphere of real world libraries, the author of this site has kept it gray and universally browsable. In its initial phase of production, it's little more than a list of links to the complete texts of classics ranging from *The Origin of Species* to *Frankenstein*, and *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*. With the implementation of a search engine (as promised), it shouldn't be long before these pages become useful to researchers and academics. For the time being, however, they're pretty standard fare.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

Labyrinth
URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 1196
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Rachel Saidman
Labyrinth, a World Wide Web server for Medieval Studies sponsored by Georgetown University, is not for the faint of heart, or tongue. If you don't speak and/or read the medieval form of some romance language, don't bother visiting. The authors of the site's stated goal is to put medieval works online, and their intended audience is clearly scholars, not amateurs. They don't even offer translations into modern English, French or German for the lightweights among us.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

THE ELAND CATALOGUE
URL: http://www.travelbooks.co.uk/
Category: Literature
Issue: 1296
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Gary Barker
This small publisher specializes in reissues of well-written travel books not currently in print. As a result, the Eland company has only ever published 39 books. The site is attractive, and tantalizing excerpts are available from all 39 travelogues. However, some of the books were written long ago and employ language which may prove offensive to modern readers. For example, one author refers in an excerpt to his chauffeur as "my ex-ricksha coolie." Put into its chronological context, the invective is not deliberate, but it does take a little getting used to.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

Freeeee(z)sssociation
URL: http://www.tezcat.com/~ksbrooks/
Category: Literature
Issue: 1296
Content Quality: Poor
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Daniel Alarcon
When you come across this site, don¹t slow down, just keep on keeping on. Nothing to see here folks; at least, nothing of substance. Or, if there is, you¹ll have to spend some time finding it. My time here was just wasted. It all looks great, I give you that: very artsy layout, with smooth lines and engaging visuals. But the poetry, the photography, the intellectual games lead nowhere. A designer is at work here in a vacuum of content. Take the nearest link out.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 15

The Scott Gallery
URL: http://haven.uniserve.com/~mscott/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: David Pescovitz
Michael Scott has finally brought his unique melding of photography and poetry to the Web. (Never heard of him? Neither had I.) Anyway, Michael has graciously organized his textual and visual artworks under a half dozen themes, including love, war, philosophy and others. The photos -- birds, flowers, raindrops on a branch, etc.-- are quite serene and well shot in a New Age postcard kind of way -- the accompanying poetry is extremely melodramatic. Michael says he¹s offering his work as ³an oasis of positive thought on the Internet.² With that in mind, his page deserves a look just for the karma alone.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 14

Virtual Urth
URL: http://www.users.interport.net/~cezanneh/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
Someone spent a great deal of time building this site. More specifically, someone spent a great deal of time determining which background and text color combinations are most indecipherable, and then gleefully constructed a site based on that information. This is a poetry/literary Œzine, and I do wish I could have explored more of it. Unfortunately, poor HTML coding practices made for a mess while once again proving my first Law of the Web: frames are almost always a force for evil. The situation grew horrible enough to bring my Netscape 2.0 crashing down, carrying with it several telnet sessions and my mood.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 14

Anne Rice Home Page
URL: http://www.cyserv.com/pttong/rice.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Poor
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
It has been a slow week. I¹ve met two people who believed themselves to be vampires, and only one person claiming to be a werewolf. The phenomena is tapering off; isn¹t it time Anne Rice came out with a new novel to stoke the flames? This is another Rice page: vampires, mummies, spooky undead, and so forth. A few of her books are profiled and there are the ever-present related links. There is no reason to visit this page, a damning indictment indeed for a space built by a self-described web programmer and HTML designer.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 14

William Blake Poet and Engraver
URL: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Poor
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Wayne Cunningham
Created by another academic group that believes Blake¹s work is not fully understood without the illustrations, this site is attempting to produce a CD-ROM and a hypertext archive to provide access to Blake¹s full range. The examples on the pages of this site make me absolutely thirsty to see more, but the project won¹t be complete until 1998. Because a major part of the work will be going on throughout 1996 and 1997, this is a good site for periodic visits.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 14

The Poetry of Yeats
URL: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/yeats/Index.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Poor
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Wayne Cunningham
It¹s time for the indulgence part of our program; Yeats is one of my favorites. Oh, the site isn¹t much to look at. It¹s what we call Lynx-enhanced ‹ just text, no pictures of audio. But there are a lot of poems here. Technically, it would make any Web designer cringe. The top of the page has the title, ³The Poetry of Yeats,² then a very long list of poem titles that link to the text. But I just want to repeat that there are a lot of poems here.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 14

Ever the Twain Shall Meet
URL: http://www.lm.com/~joseph/mtwain.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0896
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Poor
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: MCM
This home-brewed site gives you the full text of *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*, *The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson* and *What is Man and Other Essays*, with each chapter on its own HTML page for easy browsing. It also provides links to other Twain-centered sites and downloadable zip files of a number of Twain's works. There's no analysis, biography or discussion, but if you have a sudden urge to hang with Huck and Jim, you can do so immediately right here.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 14

Roald Dahl Page
URL: http://www.nd.edu/~khoward1/Roald.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0996
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Ananda Nada
Did you know that the author of *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory* served in the Royal Air Force? (Dahl was shot down over Libya at the age of 24.) Or that his books have been among the most frequently banned in American schools in the nineties? Biographical trivia of this sort, and photos, along with key primary texts (The Unofficial Oompa-Loompa Songbook), combine to make Kristine Howard's affectionate web devotional a rewarding site for young readers. One of the pages showcases reviews of Dahl's books written by children themselves, who are encouraged to contribute to this developing site. Aesthetics: 2 Content: 2 Smarts: 1
Overall Rating (out of 18): 14

The Moor's Last Sigh
URL: http://www.randomhouse.com/site/rushdie/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0996
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Ananda Nada
Random House has built a glossy and somewhat shallow site to promote Salman Rushdie's latest novel. Dainty image-maps have been splashed all over and many of these pages are off-limits to people using text-based browsers, which seems ironic considering the force of Rushdie's words alone. If this doesn't affect you and you'd like to read some excerpts or look at the author's bio, these pages are worth a visit. Links will also lead you to a bulletin board, a RealAudio interview and a reader's guide for *The Moor's Last Sigh*.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 14

A Celebration of Women Writers
URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/mmbt/women/celebration.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0996
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Poor
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Ananda Nada
Here you have a bare-bones list of Women writers. The only prerequisite for being listed is to be a woman and a writer, which doesn't mean that all the greats are listed, nor that all those listed are great. As a matter of fact, there are glaring omissions. The celebration is ongoing and requires your participation. Provide the busy, newlywed webmasters links to electronic texts by, and about, your favorite women writers. Their list is enormous, of course, and branching out every day.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 14

Exquisite Corpse
URL: http://corpse.books.com/EChome.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 1096
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Poor
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Ananda Nada
Graphics at EC are so boring that you're forced to seek diversion in the texts. Thankfully, they're worth reading. From editor Andrei Codrescu's giddy farewell to Timothy Leary to Bob Black's insightful critique of *The End of Work*, EC's site delivers consistently fresh, well-wrought essay and fiction. The editorial focus on self-actualizing volition is commendable, no doubt. Intrigued readers might appreciate some context regarding the relationship of this site to its papery original, or to the surrealist parlor game for which it's named. Presently, however, these pages simply reflect a bland ambition to use the Web to win subscriptions.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 14

The Sewanee Review
URL: http://www.sewanee.edu/sreview/Home.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 1096
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Daniel Alarcon
An elegant home page, with its stained-glass graphic and friendly editorial, gives this southern site a fitting sense of hospitality. Published since 1892, a history of the *Sewanee Review* suggests that its devotion to literature, regardless of the latest "critical lunacies," has been the magazine's key to success. As of this review, this is the most illuminating information on site. If that doesn't grab you, feel free to read the currently featured poets, including Neal Bowers and Jeffrey Harrison, browse the editor's links, or consult the writer's guidelines. Or wait until the site is done. Aesthetics: 2 Content: 2 Smarts: 1
Overall Rating (out of 18): 14

The Valley of Fear
URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~dmoore
Category: Literature
Issue: 1196
Content Quality: Poor
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: David Pescovitz
Welcome to the Valley of Fear, one fan's tribute to Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ("Valley of Fear" is a title of one of the author's books.) Trim in content, this site contains bibliographies of Doyle's books and the stories that star the great deductive reasoner, and a few links to related sites. Worth a peek if you're looking for a clue about Holmes and Doyle, but way too skimpy for a bookmark.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 14

EARLE BIRNEY
URL: http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/ae/e_birney/home.htm
Category: Literature
Issue: 1296
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Good
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Gary Barker
This site, resplendent with Canadian pride, celebrates the life and work of Canada's best-known poet. Earle Birney won Canada's highest literary prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, twice -- once in 1942 for "David and Other Poems" and once in 1945 for "Now is Time." This site features essays, reviews, a biography, a selected bibliography, manuscript drafts of one of Birney's most famous poems, opinions about Birney, and more, all available in either French or English. The graphics are ugly and amateurish, but then, the same can be said for the majority of Web sites.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 14

SHARP
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~sharp/
Category: Literature
Issue: 1296
Content Quality: Excellent
Aesthetic Quality: Poor
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Gary Barker
SHARP is an acronym for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, an organization "for scholars working in all areas and aspects of the history of print culture." SHARP has an annual conference which moves from country to country, but their SHARP-L listserv is available to all interested parties. The fee for a full membership is $15 US or Canadian, and includes a monthly newsletter and an annual directory. Those fascinated by media history will be intrigued by the abstracts and links available here. It's scholarly analysis and interpretation of commonplace things: A sort of archaeology of letters.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 14

Don Delillo Web Site
URL: http://edziza.arts.ubc.ca/english/500web/peter/Delillo.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0796
Content Quality: Poor
Aesthetic Quality: Poor
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Diedra Ramsey
Sorry, but this site is dead. There is too much gray matter. The web site gives an unenthusiastic list of Don Delillo's fictional works, critiques, and links to other Delillo sites. Unfortunately, something as basic as a biography is missing. The research team at the University of British Columbia's English department could do a much better job.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 13

Gertrude Stein Memorial Website
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DYLAN THOMAS
URL: http://pcug.org.au/~wwhatman/dylan_thomas.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 1296
Content Quality: Good
Aesthetic Quality: Poor
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Gary Barker
Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet whose work first came to prominence in 1934 when he was 18 years old. An alcoholic, he died in 1953. His best-known works are "Fern Hill" and "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." This site, sponsored by the Dylan Thomas Society of Australia, features the text of 17 poems, a bibliography, a biography, links to other Dylan Thomas sites, links to Dylan Thomas audio clips, a page about his widow Caitlin Thomas, and more. The site is difficult to look at, due chiefly to a hideous background image.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 13

The Book review Quicklist
URL: http://www.well.com/user/paulkies/QUICK.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0796
Content Quality: Poor
Aesthetic Quality: Poor
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Patrick Joseph
A collection of brief book reviews, the Quicklist gives you a chance to add your own criticism or respond to what¹s already there. As the great majority of the reviews are unfailingly positive (people plugging their favorites) and others are misinformed, this is probably not the best place to get ideas about what to read next. Some may find it refreshing to read what other dilettantes think, but I suspect the real appeal will be for those who can¹t wait to recommend their favorite read to anyone who will listen.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 12

Granta
URL: http://www.granta.com
Category: Literature
Issue: 0996
Content Quality: Poor
Aesthetic Quality: Poor
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Ananda Nada
This site is a dull advertisment for *Granta*, the magazine that brought you the likes of Amis, Rushdie and Ishiguro. You can read one essay from the current issue and browse the TOC¹s of past editions. But that's all. Then you're prompted to enter your credit card number for a subscription, which just goes to show how clueless they are. When I visited the site, it featured a press release for *Granta*'s forthcoming issue, one devoted to America's best young novelists, but which overlooks Richard Powers. Which simply underlines my previous point... A wasted opportunity.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 12

Poets in Person
URL: http://www.wilmington.net/arts/poets
Category: Literature
Issue: 0996
Content Quality: Poor
Aesthetic Quality: Poor
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Ananda Nada
Somehow, this site evokes the ambience of a tacky suburban bus station. Focusing on the bland black and white photos of the poets doesn't help matters either. Having said that, the actual poetic content here is limited to audio files accompanied by insignificant biographical blurbs. Talents like Rita Dove, James Merrill and Sharon Olds deserve better representation. Background and text colors should be changed, the photos should be reformatted and the blinking phrases should be tossed immediately. Oh, ... and poetry should be added if at all possible.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 12

Ploughshares
URL: http://www.emerson.edu/ploughshares/
Category: Literature
Issue: 1096
Content Quality: Poor
Aesthetic Quality: Poor
TechnoSmart Quality: Poor
Site of the Month: No
Author: Ananda Nada
With the help of guest editors like Seamus Heaney, Raymond Carver, and Rita Dove, *Ploughshares* has built a stable literary reputation since the seventies. These pages point to a few samples from the current issue as well as authors' bios and the means to ordering their books. But the works in *Ploughshares* are resistant to the Web's hypermedia mutations, and so their appearance in its midst seems oddly antisocial.Then again, if you happen to be living in Karachi, for instance, where copies of *Ploughshares* are hard to come by, this site would obviously come in handy.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 12

Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher
URL: http://infoweb.magi.com/~forrest/index.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
If you¹re not familiar with the work of Edgar Allan Poe, you must immediately acquaint yourself with it. Poe fans will greet this Web space with joy; it¹s a fine example of what a fan site should be: the complete works of Poe, biographies, filmographies(!), discographies(!!), and more. Well-organized, cleverly presented, engaging ‹ I can find nothing to complain about here. A great deal of time was obviously spent putting these pages together, and I encourage everyone to pay a visit, if only to view the Web at its best.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 11

BookWire
URL: http://www.bookwire.com/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0496
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Shel Kimen
BookWire captivates with interesting, insightful and intelligent commentary on nearly everything related to the publishing industry. I could easily spend hours at this site, each and every week. There¹s a seemingly excessive amount of material here, though none of it is gratuitous. BookWire simply has a huge agenda ‹ and tackles it well. Point your browser, put on your reading glasses, and prepare for volumes of content. At times, organization seems a bit lacking, but how could we expect otherwise. There is more content included in this one domain, Bookwire.com, than on the sites of several major publishing houses combined. Teaming up with *Boston Book Review*, BookWire sponsors dozens and dozens of new reviews each month spanning topics as diverse as fiction, poetry, technology and social commentary. And *Publishers Weekly* supplies the site with weekly best sellers lists, and special features like the ³Best of 95.² For those who *aren¹t* interested in the latest Stephen King thriller, Danielle Steele romance novel, or, egads, Bill Gates¹ new personal literary tangent, BookWire also accommodates with The Hungry Mind Review, a must for independent publishing fans. Each quarter, the Hungry Mind addresses a specific theme. In winter 1995, the theme was Science and Faith. Hungry Mind also sponsors a Web-only section titled ³Hot Off The Press,² which contains dozens of reviews that don¹t necessarily fall into the specific theme category. The reviews are of course brilliantly constructed criticisms, and fine literature in and of themselves. In addition to all this, BookWire houses the Web site for *The Quarterly Black Review* (QBR). Though this area was still under serious construction when I last checked, it did offer a wonderful interview with writer Terry McMillan on the screen adaptation of her novel ³Waiting To Exhale.² QBR also offers a list of Black Classic authors. Clicking on Maya Angelou links you to a bibliography on her work. Unfortunately, there is no additional information about either the author or the texts, but it¹s a good start and I applaud the effort. Finally, the ³BookWire¹s Best Bets² area is a wonderful link list of book-related resources. Unlike other book resource lists, this one has a heavy emphasis on children, paying special attention to young writers as well as adults writing for young people. There¹s also a separate section of the site completely devoted to the publishing industry: Who works for the 500-plus national publishers, and how does one contact them? The entire area is searchable. BookWire is an outstanding accomplishment, and should pique the interest of book lovers and the publishing industry. Fantastic.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 11

Bill Gates The Road Ahead
URL: http://www.roadahead.com/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0496
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Excellent
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
Assume Bill Gates owns half of everything worth owning. If every second he purchased half of everything he *doesn¹t* already own, how long will it be until we¹re all working for Microsoft? This is a fine looking site put together by top-notch Web artists. But tell me: Is there really a need for an entire site devoted to *The Road Ahead*, Bill¹s book? And even if the book merits a site, does it really deserve its own domain name? This is one of the greatest privileges of wealth: People think you actually have something worth saying.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 9

Keats John 1884 Poetical Works
URL: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/keats/index.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
My favorite poem is ³The Second Coming.² Oh, wait; that¹s Yeats. This site is a component of the Project Bartleby work at Columbia University, which is making selected texts available on the Web. Keats¹ collected poems are here, especially-troublesome terms are annotated via hyperlink, and a first line index is provided. A no-frills design makes it easy to find that beloved poem in ready-to-cut-and-paste format. Project Bartleby is a must-have bookmark for any reader. I cannot praise its efforts enough; only through such work will we reach our goal: all the world¹s literature available online.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 7

The Milton-L Home Page
URL: http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton1.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
How many lives have been ruined by ³Paradise Lost²? How many otherwise educated people have lowered their heads in shame, forced to confess that they were bored to tears by this poem? Those individuals who do find pleasure in Milton will delight in this site. Links are provided to Milton¹s prose and poetry, info on the Milton listserv is available, and scholarly articles are online for perusal. The site aims to be ‹ and is ‹ a comprehensive resource for the wide-eyed believer seeking Milton news on the net. Only the lack of centerfold GIFs might disappoint the Milton fan.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 7

WWW POET'S PARK
URL: http://www.soos.com/poetpark/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
Most poetry is bad. Most literature is bad, for that matter, but the rewards of the well-written poem or story are so great that one endures the dreck. Poet¹s Park is an online literary journal. By the previous rule, it¹s the case that most of its contents are mediocre at best. The attractive layout and pleasing design make the bad writing endurable, though, and further one¹s enjoyment of the worthwhile ‹ which is hiding in there, by the way. Handy ³mail to² links allow almost effortless feedback to the writers. This small e-zine is worth a visit.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 7

LIVING POETS EJournal Home Page
URL: http://dougal.derby.ac.uk:80/lpoets/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
This site introduces itself as ³The home of Powerful New Poetry,² and a manifesto is offered for your reading pleasure. I hate pompous overstatement, and I believe that manifestos and art are incompatible, so I must admit to an initial negative reaction. A slick interface ‹ much more attractive than most e-zines ‹ gives access to well over 100K of poems. Most of them are awful, of course, but I came across a few that really work. The site looks good, and there¹s a large body of work to examine. I suppose I can forgive them their excesses.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 7

Turkish Poetry Home Page
URL: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~sibel/poetry/poetry.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
Often, late at night, I find myself in a panic. The world is simply too big, and I will never know more than the smallest portion of it. This page did nothing to allay my fears. Poetry ‹ in Turkey? It seems I¹ve managed to pass a lifetime without giving any real thought to the possibility. A wide selection of Turkish poetry is presented in the original and in English. Numerous scholarly works assist the reader in placing the poetry in context, and the simple layout does not interfere with efforts to explore the site. A pleasant curiosity for any lover of words.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 7

kids lit
URL: http://mgfx.com/kidlit/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0496
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Shel Kimen
³Designed for kids and adults interested in quality kids literature.² Buy books, submit art and stories, read letters to Santa ‹ a little dated, indeed‹ sign a guest book, and submit your personal comments. This site features all the typical Web ammenities, and is a great space to share with the wee ones. It could use a little layout help, but overall, it¹s on the up.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 7

kathy acker hoam paige
URL: http://www.uidaho.edu/~dodg9102/acker.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0496
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
I had never encountered the work of Kathy Acker prior to this page. This may be a good thing ‹ my fragile psyche is still in pieces over the way ³Cheers² ended. This site offers extensive selections from Acker¹s work, in addition to news, reviews, and related links. The organization and presentation in no way dampen the intensity of the writing here. The word ³postmodern² appears numerous times in this space, and this definitely works for me for if ³postmodern² can be considered synonymous to ³mad as hell.² Overall, a collection of disturbing and pointed writings that no doubt have quite a following.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 7

H P Lovecraft
URL: http://www.primenet.com/~dloucks/hplpage.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0596
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: David Pescovitz
Cult horror novelist HP Lovecraft has found a worthy hidden home in this well designed and clear site. Of course a complete list of Lovecraft¹s tales is presented, but the most interesting elements of this site are the ³readings² of Lovecraft¹s work. With the author¹s numerous references to numerous medieval texts containing secrets that ³man was not meant to know,² it can be difficult to discern between the actual dark manuscripts of our past and those that only have a history in Lovecraft¹s mind. Put simply, the Necronomicon is fiction. (We think. heh, heh, heh...)
Overall Rating (out of 18): 6

The Complete Shawian
URL: http://metro.turnpike.net/T/tehart/index.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
I was excited by the prospect of a Shaw home page. ³Wow,² I thought, ³the old crank online!² As I quickly discovered, there are Shaw repositories out there, but this is not one of them. This Web space is devoted to its creator¹s scholarly analysis of Shaw. A few essays and a Master¹s thesis are present, as is a novel by the page owner. Those interested in critical readings of G.B. Shaw might take an interest in this site; those wanting the undistilled spirit should try a Web search.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 6

John Keats 1795 1821
URL: http://portico.bl.uk/exhibitions/keats/overview.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0496
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
This site is served by Portico, the British Library¹s Online Information Server. One might expect it to be a vast clearinghouse of Keats-related information. If these were your expectations, you would be mistaken. Visitors will find a brief biography of the poet, a few digitized images of early manuscripts, and little else. The available material is well-presented, but a Keats researcher will be disappointed by the paltry selection. The especially troubled might enjoy the audio file of Sally Brown¹s reading of ³When I have fears that I may cease to be.²
Overall Rating (out of 18): 6

An Index of Poets
URL: http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/indexauthors.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
This is an electronic version of the *Representative Poetry* anthology published by the U. of Toronto press. The medieval to early twentieth century period is covered, with several poems each from 98 poets. The Romantics make a good showing, as do the usual suspects: Johnson and Jonson, Pope and Swift, Milton and, of course, Bill S. Nothing surprising in the selection. Poems are indexed by keyword, date, title, and first line. A straightforward and uninspiring interface allows untroubled browsing. This page is pleasant enough to visit, and it succeeds in its modest task as an online version of the anthology.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 6

Shelley Percy Bysshe 1901 Complete Poetical Works
URL: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/shelley/index.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0396
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
The Romantic poets seem a bit unseemly to the jaded youth of today. Passion? A burning obsession to draw forth the secrets at the heart of being? No thanks; the opening band is just about to take the stage. This site is another element of the Project Bartleby efforts to put classic literature online. Not all of Shelley¹s works are in place yet, but a few of the major texts and plays are already available. If you need a Shelley fix in electronic format, it just might be here. Those researching the man should go elsewhere.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 6

The Sherlockian Connection
URL: http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~lmoskowi/holmes.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0496
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
Any mention of Sherlock Holmes brings a wry smile to my face. Such nice stories, and the Holmes fans I¹ve met are all such nice people. No surprise that they should at last turn up on the Web. Here you¹ll find a standard fan site with links to Holmes-themed external pages, and a ³What¹s Happening² area for fans in Baltimore. There is also a great deal of information here about an e-mail list for the faithful. Pleasant, nothing exceptional, much like the stories themselves. Holmes enthusiasts will feel at home.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 6

Literary HyperCalendar
URL: http://www.yasuda-u.ac.jp/LitCalendar.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0496
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
December 12, 1889: Robert Browning dies in Venice. January 4, 1960: Albert Camus dies in a car crash. See the connection? Perhaps this site will help. Here we have a hyperlinked literary calendar with a few pieces of literati trivia for each calendar day. This site reminds me of those kooky-themed desktop calendars that were so popular a few years back: a wacky Winston Churchill anecdote for each day of the year. And so forth. The site creator appears quite interested in user feedback; always a good sign. As more bits of trivia augment the database, the site will grow more interesting.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 6

Hunter S Thompson
URL: http://www.empirenet.com/~rdaeley/authors/thompson.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0496
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
I sometimes puzzle over that age-old question, Is a self-destructive lifestyle an essential part of genius? Case in point: Hunter S. Thompson. Few would argue the brilliance of his political journalism. And few would argue the fundamentally unhealthful lifestyle he has pursued ‹ for decades, if reports are to be believed. Another mundane fan site, there is little original material sitting here. Of greatest interest to Thompson fans will be the related links, which feature images, reviews, and more. A useful point to jump into the Web, but don¹t expect to spend a great deal of time parked here.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 6

Shakespeare Illustrated
URL: http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0496
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
I must admit that I began composing this review as soon as I saw the site¹s title. ³How nice,² I thought, ³Shakespeare¹s plays...with pretty pictures.² It turns out the site is nothing of the sort. Instead, what one finds are digitized images of paintings related to the various plays. The images look good; care was taken in their translation. Most definitely a work in progress, we can hope that time will nurture a growing collection of images to be browsed. Both art types and Shakespeare fans would enjoy this site, yet still rue its small size.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 6

bukowski
URL: http://realbeer.com/buk/
Category: Literature
Issue: 0496
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
You¹ll find them in every college town: no talent twentysomething slackers drinking beer, telling stories about girlfriends they never had, quietly trying to play out a Bukowski story they once may have read. Admittedly, some Bukowski can be amusing, but most of his hard-drinking tales bore me. Visitors to this site will find a few pieces of Bukowski art, some sound files, a brief bio, and the various other items one typically finds at a small fan site. Pleasant enough, but this is certainly not the definitive Buk space. Interested parties should try a net search.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 6

Anne Rice and The Memnoch Ball
URL: http://www.webcom.com/lchamber/ar.html
Category: Literature
Issue: 0496
Content Quality: Not Rated
Aesthetic Quality: Not Rated
TechnoSmart Quality: Good
Site of the Month: No
Author: Steve Szyszko
I find few things more upsetting than crystal-rubbing sprites spouting off about the coming Millennial shift. Come to think of it, only vampire wannabes annoy me more, and we have Anne Rice to blame for the gothic revival we¹re witnessing. There is an enormous amount of Rice-related paraphernalia online, and heaps of it can be reached from this site. Images, related links, instructions on making custom fangs ‹ you¹ll find it all here. Spooky types will love this site; pay particular attention to the transcript of Anne Rice¹s answering machine greeting.
Overall Rating (out of 18): 6