Agata Waszkiewicz is a video games researcher at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. In this interview with JA Mattey, Agata discusses poems as puzzles, the distinctions between cozy games and comfort play, and why gaming is for everyone.

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Bergthaller's essay originally appeared in the collection, Ecological Thought in Germany. It is reprinted here, with permissions from Lexington Books, a part of an ebr gathering-in-process on Natural Media (to be released in the summer of 2018).

Ralph Clare reviews After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography by Chris Kraus.

The essay aims to explore the issues of embodiment in several e-literary works. Today, we are facing more complex and sophisticated hybrids between human and machine than ever. Such novel bodies, shaped by new technologies and software-supported, are explored also by several e-literary works that creatively apply new media specificities. The line coming from Shelley Jackson’s hyperfiction and textual body art to Serge Bouchardon’s recent researches of interface, can give us an interesting insigh...

As the name "Electrifying Detail" suggests, this essay shows how detail is an aesthetic category within electronic literature. The essay points out the ways in which reader and writer alike can "focus on the text as a process rather than the product."

This essay discusses collaboration and appropriation for electronic works, using two of her own texts to help readers understand the thoughts and processes behind these creations. While explaining that implicit collaboration is still a very controversial issue, Skains' essay persuades the reader that the benefits and possibilities of collaboration far outweigh the negatives.

This review of Show Sold Separately tells us that media paratexts can be as important as the texts themselves. Jonathan Gray's book provides an expansive model of peritexts, epitexts, and other media paratexts, but seems to leave out the contexts of paratexts, especially audience-created works.