An all-fiction encyclopedia!?!? The Encyclopedia Project is the brainchild of Brown University MFA graduates Miranda Mellis, Kate Schatz and Tisa Bryant. It’s a five volume hardcover book project that adopts the aesthetic and design of a traditional encyclopedia, but “subverts the canonical structure and method.” The Encyclopedia Project is focused on increasing the visibility of the avant-garde and experimental arts, and reflects the founders’ frustration with how traditional literary journals segregate the arts and artists. Renowned educational institutions such as Brown and Temple Universities have already started to utilize the encyclopedia as a unique teaching tool in their literature and creative writing classes. The first volume (A-E) is available for purchase online, where you can also subscribe to future volumes. While not exactly cheap, they’re sure a bargain compared to conventional encyclopedias.

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Kate Friday, 09.22.06 @ 5:53 pm

Hey thanks for writing up Encyclopedia! We’ve already had one potential contributor come our way today because of it. How did you find out about it? Word is really getting around about it, and it’s fun to try and track it.

This is a great site–keep up the excellent work. I’m going to add a link to our Encyclopedia blog. http://www.encyclopediaproject.blogspot.com

Thanks again,

Kate
Co-editor, The Encyclopedia Project

p.s. Yeah, the books not *cheap* but hey—it’s hardbound! 336 pages! Full color art! It’s a total steal. ;)


Geir Saturday, 09.23.06 @ 3:12 pm

Though I haven’t had a chance to look at the book(s) yet, this reminds me a lot of the type of work the Interstitial Arts Foundation (IAF) works to promote – works that are shelved uncomfortably at Borders (or not at all), that are hard to explain to friends and family, and so on.

Kate – this looks great, looking forward to digging in.
Josh – thanks for bringing this to my attention.

http://www.interstitialarts.org/index.html
http://pub103.ezboard.com/binterstitialarts

-Geir




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