Just Your Luck: The "Joe's Luck" E-book Is Free

So I contributed to a fun project launched by Jason Boog at Galleycat. Inspired by the very entertaining Star Wars Uncut, he asked a bunch of writers to take a page from Horatio Alger's 100-year-old novel, Joe's Luck: Always Wide Awake, and retell it. How? Any way we wanted to. He's billing the result as Joe's Luck: The World's Longest Literary Remix, and I'm sure it is. (Surely it can't be the world's only literary remix, anyway.) The thing "dropped" over a month ago, and I've been meaning to blog about it, but haven't found time to read the damn thing.

Now that I've started reading, feel like I was too subtle with my page. But, what the hell, rewriting Alger's mawkish stuff as an earnest literary novel still feels appropriate, and sort of funny. You can read the remix abridged (condensed, with author attribution in the endnotes) or unabridged (the whole enchilada, with authors attributed throughout)—and, either way, it's free.

If you're interested, you can see my page, side-by-side with Alger's, right here.

Posted: Monday, August 2, 2010 - 15:20 pm