So I ran into Scott Lindenbaum, one of the co-publishers of the newly launched Electric Literature No. 1.  On sale now at the Community Bookstore and elsewhere in Brooklyn and Manhattan, the first issue features fiction by Michael Cunningham and Jim Shepard

Some of you may know Scott because he used to work at the Community Bookstore. He got his MFA from Brooklyn College and is now teaching some interesting course over there.

What's neat about the publishers of Electric Literature is that they're strangely optimistic about literary publishing,

That's because they've got a multi-platform approach. Electric Literature No. 1 is "streamlined for all mediums: you can read it as a DRM-free e-book, wirelessly download for your Kindle, pop open on your iPhone on the way to work, or simply slip into your back pocket as a paperback.

Wow.

And what a line-up of good writing. Electric Literature’s Summer 2009 debut anthology features the
first published excerpt from the forthcoming novel by Pulitzer
Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham (The Hours, Specimen
Days).

The issue also showcases new fiction by some of America's most
innovative and important contemporary writers, including Jim Shepard, T Cooper, Lydia Millet, and Diana Wagman.

Stay tuned for a video blurb about Electric Literature No. 1.