[Purple-Blurb] Reading tonight, bonus Purple Blurb on December 10

[Nick Montfort]

Dear Purple Blurb participants,

First off, I have a new book out and will be presenting it with two of my 
co-authors, Patsy Baudoin and Noah Vawter, tonight (Monday night) at 7pm, 
at the Harvard Book Store (1256 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge). This 
is not an official Purple Blurb event, but I assume it will interest some 
of you.

The book, written by 10 of us in a single voice, is about a one-line 
program that offers a way to consider popular programming, randomness and 
regularity in the arts, the maze in computing, BASIC, the Commodore 64, 
and more...

  10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

  By Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass
  Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter

  The MIT Press | ISBN: 9780262018463 | Hardcover | $30
  304 pp. | 6 x 9 in | 69 b&w illus.

The event is...

  10 PRINT reading & party
  TODAY - Monday, November 12
  7pm
  Harvard Book Store
  1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

And beyond that, we have an additional Purple Blurb event that was not 
originally on the schedule. Prof. Al Filreis of the University of 
Pennsylvania and that campus's Kelly Writers House will join me in 
conversation to discuss the latest iteration of his Modern Poetry course. 
Al has been doing remarkable work at Penn but some time, but most recently 
his Modern Poetry class has dramatically expanded -- he's now teaching 
34,000 students via Coursera.

Al will discuss the class and other writing interventions at Penn that 
have involved digital collaboration and the use of digital media: The 
Writers House and also PennSound, the Web's major archive of readings of 
poetry.

  Al Filreis on his Poetry class of 34,000
  Monday, December 10
  5:30pm
  MIT's 6-120

  -Nick