Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Lipogram
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Other examples== In Rebeccah Giltrow's ''Twenty-Six Degrees'', each of the twenty-six chapters, narrated by a different character, deliberately excludes one of the twenty-six letters while using the other twenty-five at least once. And each of the twenty-six letters is excluded from one and only one chapter (the first chapter excludes ''A'', the second chapter excludes ''B'', the third chapter excludes ''C'', etc., the last (twenty-sixth) chapter excludes ''Z'').{{citation needed|date=June 2023}} ''Cipher and Poverty (The Book of Nothing)'', a book by [[Mike Schertzer]] (1998), is presented as the writings of "a prisoner whose world had been impoverished to a single utterance ... who can find me here in this silence". The poems that follow use only the vowels ''A'', ''E'', ''I'', and ''O'', and consonants ''C'', ''D'', ''F'', ''H'', ''L'', ''M'', ''N'', ''R'', ''S'', ''T'', and ''W'', taken from that utterance. ''[[Eunoia (book)|Eunoia]]'', a book written by Canadian author Christian Bök (2001), is lipogrammatic. The title uses every vowel once. Each of the five chapters in this book is a lipogram. The first chapter in this book uses only words containing the vowel "A" and no other vowel. The second chapter uses only words with no vowel but "E", and so on.<ref>Christian Bök, ''Eunoia'', Coach House Books, 2005 {{ISBN?}} {{page needed|date=October 2020}}</ref> In December 2009, a collective of crime writers, Criminal Brief, published eight days of articles as a Christmas-themed lipogrammatic exercise.<ref name="CB1">{{cite web| title=Christmas Contest |url=http://www.criminalbrief.com/?p=10052| work=Lipograms |publisher=Criminal Brief| access-date=27 February 2013| author=Lundin, Leigh|author2=Warren, James Lincoln |author3=Lopresti, Rob |author4=Elliott-Upton, Deborah |author5=Steinbock, Steve |author6= Floyd, John | location=Los Angeles|date=December 2009}}</ref> In June 2013, finance author [[Alan Corey]] published "The Subversive Job Search",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.careerpress.com/?section=home&product_id=356|title=Career Press – The Best in Career, Business, and Reference Guides for More than 20 Years|website=careerpress.com}}</ref> a non-fiction lipogram that omitted the letter "Z".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2013/06/alan-corey-talks-about-4-fun-writerly.html|title=CAROLINELEAVITTVILLE: Alan Corey talks about 4 Fun Writerly Things Found in his fab new Book: The Subversive Job Search|last=Caroline|date=14 June 2013}}</ref> In the ninth episode of the ninth season of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', "[[Platonish]]", Lily and Robin challenge Barney to obtain a girl's phone number without using the letter ''E''. A website called the Found Poetry Review asked each of its readers (as part of a larger series of challenges) to compose a poem avoiding all letters in the title of the newspaper that had already been selected. For example, if the reader was using the ''New York Times'', then they could not use the letters ''E'', ''I'', ''K'', ''M'', ''N'', ''O'', ''R'', ''S'', ''T'', ''W'', and ''Y''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://foundpoetryreview.com/blog/oulipost-2-lipogram|title=Oulipost #2: Lipogram (Newspaper Titles) | The Found Poetry Review|website=foundpoetryreview.com}}</ref> Grant Maierhofer's ''Ebb'', a novel published in 2023, by Kernpunkt Press, was written entirely without the letter "A".
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)