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Literary Memes: Ignatius J. Reilly Could Be on Reddit
Literary Memes: Ignatius J. Reilly Could Be on Reddit
By Emily Morris
March 19, 2013

In re-reading John Kennedy Toole's brilliant A Confederacy Of Dunces, I noticed that Ignatius J. Reilly's absurdly confident declarations would be right at home on a certain Internet hellhole.

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Literary Memes: The Natural Progression of Tao Lin's Twitter
Literary Memes: The Natural Progression of Tao Lin's Twitter
By Emily Morris
March 06, 2013

Read as a whole, the Twitter of writer and friend of the Internet generation Tao Lin is very much an extension of his longer published work. The guy himself is a literary meme, so it seems fitting to reproduce his most meme-able writings in kind.

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