LIT LINKS: We’re perverts & more! (4/26/13)

In case you missed it, here’s what happened this week at Electric Literature and elsewhere…

• The Millions called us perverts.
• We deserved it.
• Wikipedia was accused of being sexist.
• Jane Austen was accused of being a game theorist.
• We published a hilarious and heartbreaking story by J. Robert Lennon (animation above).
• The Chicago Tribune bought lunch for The Boston Globe.
• Banned books returned as trading cards.
• Amazon said short fiction is “disappointing to customers.”

In other news, you can get 20% off the PEN World Voices Festival’s opening night with the code PEN13. Get your tickets now.

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— Benjamin Samuel is the co-editor of Electric Literature. He one day hopes