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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. ART, FICTION, POETRY, NON-FICTION, CRITICISM, MAIL, FOUND OBJECTS, DUST The Dead Letter Office seeks out the casualties of corporatized, institutionalized culture. Give us your best, most misunderstood works or projects (any format) and if we like them we will put them on our web site, www.deadletters.com. Send us whatever you think might be an evocation of the "dead letter" concept - any document or idea that has somehow failed to reach or communicate with the addressed audience. Our allegiance is to all attempts at expression that have somehow fallen outside the restrictive circle of "publishable" or "worthy" cultural correspondence - whether by accident, bad luck, or design. We at the Dead Letter Office closely evaluate everything we receive. We have our prejudices, like everyone, but do not let our idiosyncrasies as editors limit our content. There is only one hang-up we will not relinquish: if the craft is downright poor, we are not interested. As of now, we are a sad flightless bird of a web site. Help us as we grow wings. Starting at the end of this month, the site will be revamped to incorporate more varied content, including bizarre and twisted corporate correspondence brought to you by Daniel Arp; a full-length memoir by Margo Perin that was narrowly passed up for publication at Simon & Schuster due to office politics; and, later this summer, an illuminating tribute to a late master of the dead letter form, Robert Lansberry, whose tireless back-and-forth with the FBI and Walter Mondale led to his arrest and acquisition of the label "chronic letter writer" from government officials. This is not a money-making venture. It is a labor of love and unmasked desperation no longer content to be quiet. It belongs to no one but the people who contribute. So remove that old beloved manuscript from your desk drawer, or those slides of paintings from your garage, or that weird beautiful idea from the confines of your head, then shake out the dust and submit to: The Dead letter Office P.O. Box 81236 Pittsburgh, PA 15217 or e-mail to: postmaster@deadletters.com Sincerely, Mrs. Patti Lyle Collins Postmaster http://www.deadletters.com/ _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold