First noticed by blogger EV Grieve, then picked up by the New York Post and then the Gothamist blog, someone is serializing their novel in a very offline way — by pasting a single page at a time on lampposts in NYC’s East Village, with each page directing readers to the next page.

The Post, which started at Page 7, couldn’t find Pages 1-6, so I guess there’s no way to work backwards. Amazingly, though, they did find someone who was against it:

“Honestly, I don’t like the idea. I hate it when people just post things everywhere,” said Joe Curanhj, 42, owner of Stromboli Pizza, located right in front of the lamppost bearing Page 8. “They have the Internet, why don’t they use that?”

Wow, crankypants — is this somehow worse than crappy bands advertising their crappy shows? Personally, I like it. It’d be even better if the story were somehow linked to the locations they were pasted, so that the reader could follow along on some kind of short story walking tour.

(from @urbanphoto_blog, via @stateofthecity — welcome to FB by the way)