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[Nettime-bold] WEBSITE: Dead Letter Office


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/


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