Twitterature: 'Like Any Good Revolution, This One Started In a College Dorm'

Interesting: LA Observed reported that University of Chicago freshman Emmett Rensin and Alex Aciman have sold "Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books, Now Presented in Twenty Tweets or Less" (for an undisclosed amount via agent Brian DeFiore) to book publisher Penguin Group. (You can read the post on LA Observed.)

Aspiring pitchers and presenters, take note...

From the Twitterature Web site:

"Like any good revolution, this one started in a college dormitory. Sitting in our suite at the end of another long day at the University of Chicago, we  had an epiphany...What, we asked, are the grandest ventures of our or any generation? And what, to give this a bit more focus, best expresses the souls of 21st century Americans?

First, of course, is literature...

The second is Twitter...

Therefore, we have embarked on an attempt to bring the two pillars of our generation together, once and for all, and create that thing which does not just have the literary merit to wow the Little Magazines and the blogosphere, but the pure-money genius to take the market by storm."

Want more? Check out twitterature.us.

Related links:

• Emmett Rensin on the Huffington Post
  
• Rensin on the Chicago Maroon (University of Chicago)
  
• Alex Aciman on the New York Times
  
• Aciman on the Chicago Maroon
  
• DeFiore and Company
  
• Penguin Group (U.S.)
  
• Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship (University of Chicago)