alt-lit

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1. abbreviationclippinguncountableClipping of alternative literature, a literary movement influenced by internet culture, social media, and online publishing that emerged in the 2010s.

   Tao Lin's novel Taipei best expresses the capitalist realism of Alt Lit.

   2018, Matt Seybold, Michelle Chihara, editors, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics, Routledge, →ISBN

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   Alt Lit are dismissive of conventional notions of original authorship. On the website of the digital publisher Muumuu House, run by Alt Lit writer Tao Lin, many featured works are curated Twitter feeds.

   2016, Adam Hammond, Literature in the Digital Age: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 143

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of alt-lit.

   “He was adjacent to a specific literary group, called Alt-Lit, who were trying to establish a new canon in literature,” Cortassa says.

   [2024 March 30, Leo Barraclough, “‘Long Live the Tyrant,’ About Publisher Giancarlo DiTrapano, the ‘Basquiat of the New York Literary Scene,’ Eyes Spring Shoot”, in Variety