Avant-Pop Interactive

From: vaporwarz@aol.com (Vaporwarz)
Date: 23 Aug 1995 19:52:10 -0400


[I saw this and wanted to encourage people to read Alt-X.
Great manifestoes. -- The moderator]


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Here's the most recent Alt-X FAQ:

Alternative-X
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

1. What is Alt-X? 

Alt-X, located at http://www.altx.com is an on-line publishing network
that houses innovative writing of all kinds including avant-pop fiction,
interviews with writers as diverse as Brett Easton Ellis, Nicholson Baker,
Kathy Acker, Douglas Coupland, Mark Leyner, Mark Amerika and William T.
Vollmann, a monthly manifesto, do-me anarchist memoirs/treatises,
electronic newsletters and columns from Alt-X correspondents all around
the world, the electronic version of print zines like Black Ice, io and
American Book Review, original electronic books and hypertexts, special
reports (for example, The Electronic Beat , a look at the 1994 Naropa
summer celebration of "Beat Rebels & Other Angels") and critical essays on
the state of contemporary writing & poetics. 

2. What is Alt-X's purpose in life? 

Alt-X wants to be the one site where contemporary writers, readers and
cybersurfers use their altered  writing forms to connect, communicate and
congregate with the ever-expanding network of cultural workers/artist-
associates spanning the international zone. Avant-Pop Novelists, Language
Poets, Cyberpunk Essayists, Beat Reporters, Interzone Realists, these are
just a few of the folks getting stuck in our publishing web. 

3. How long has Alt-X been around and where is it going? 

Alt-X started as a gopher site in April 1994 but was officially launched
on October 1, 1994 with the Alt-X web site. Our traffic has dramatically
increased every month and in June we had over 250,000 hits!

Upcoming projects in the next couple of months include:

GRAMMATRON, a multi-media, virtual reality writing-machine that translates
your experience FOR you AS you experience it.

Electronic Samplers of a number of important anthologies including 
_Degenerative Prose:  Writing Beyond Category_ (Black Ice Books), a wildly
hybridized collection of ur-narratives by writers as diverse as Terry
Southern, Rikki Ducornet, Steve Katz, R.U. Sirius and many others you've
probably never heard of (!), _After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant Pop
Anthology_ (Penguin/Viking) and _Chick-Lit: Women On the Edge_ (FC2).

The Electronic Book Review, the Internet's first full-fledged mechanism
for critically reading electronic texts, multi-media sites, mailing lists
and other projects evolving out of the new digital era.


4. How much does it cost? 

Right now everything is for free, so check it out!