Victoria Mixon emailed me to let me know that she’s posting the literary mash-up submissions. If you’d like to read them along with three essays on “Making FunnyFunny,” please visit www.victoriamixon.com.
Due to a strong response on the subject of literary mash-ups from Victoria’s essay, Victoria is inviting readers join her in a Literary Mash-Up Extravaganza.
Please use two (or more!) literary sources to come up with titles and brief descriptions for possible literary mash-ups. She’ll post as many as possible of the ones that make us laugh the hardest on her website, www.victoriamixon.com in about a week. She’ll consider posting entire flash fiction pieces if she gets one or more that totally knock us out.
Below are examples of mash-ups:
Don Juan S.S. Valdez Quixote: A slightly mad coffee merchant spends 800 pages attacking windmills and making love to women all over Spain. Then he spills thousands of gallons of oil in an Alaskan sound.
Brokeback to the Future: Doc and Marty experience a love they never knew was possible. In the sequel, they do it in the Old West, but no one watches it.
Leave your mash-ups in the comments section or email them to gotheca@mcn.org. We look forward to hearing from you!
Rebeca Schiller is the editor of Alvah's Books. She reviews literary fiction and non-fiction.
