‘The wordless novels of the 21st Century’
Could this be Norman Mailer’s biggest nightmare? Or else a fresh approach to “books”?
“The wordless novels of the 21st Century”—that’s how Seattle bookseller Michael Lieberman is describing the offerings of DQ Books.
“DQ Books,” he writes in his reader blog in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, “brings together artists, illustrators and photographers and places their visuals within the context of the book form using Flash technology. Each thematic issue is accompanied by a soundscape created by French composer Avril.”
The TeleRead take: Experiment? Sure. But I wonder if text-heavy novels are already losing sales to graphic novels, containing at least some text. Then again, graphic novels may increase interest in the traditional kind. Can the “wordless” variety?
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