Title: Blorbo from My Inbox Mod(s): tbd--I'm happy to do it but also happy to let someone else take it Open or Closed: Open Category: Meta Description: Dracula Daily has ushered in a whole wave of substack readalongs of classic literature--Les Miserables, Moby Dick, Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, The Three Musketeers, the Divine Comedy, and probably others I don't know about. In some cases, the format is transformational; in others, it's a restoration of the way readers first encountered it.
So let's talk about serial readalongs! How they change the reading experience, for good or ill; how they change (or create) their fandoms, and why they're so popular--is it that we've all lost the ability to read a long novel on our own over the last few years? That we're all longing for the massive pop culture readalong that was Harry Potter? Or just that they're finally making us sit down and (re)read Moby Dick?
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Date: 2023-01-23 11:16 pm (UTC)Mod(s): tbd--I'm happy to do it but also happy to let someone else take it
Open or Closed: Open
Category: Meta
Description: Dracula Daily has ushered in a whole wave of substack readalongs of classic literature--Les Miserables, Moby Dick, Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, The Three Musketeers, the Divine Comedy, and probably others I don't know about. In some cases, the format is transformational; in others, it's a restoration of the way readers first encountered it.
So let's talk about serial readalongs! How they change the reading experience, for good or ill; how they change (or create) their fandoms, and why they're so popular--is it that we've all lost the ability to read a long novel on our own over the last few years? That we're all longing for the massive pop culture readalong that was Harry Potter? Or just that they're finally making us sit down and (re)read Moby Dick?