Links to other Oulipo sites
Here is a (constrained) list of some sites related to the Oulipo, in no particular order.
The home page of Oulipo (in French)
History of the group and brief profiles on members, and announcements of events.
La Page Perec (official site for Georges Perec)
Photos, bibliography, etc.
La Grande Palindrome
Perec's record-length palindrome (over 5,000 letters)
Stefan Sinclair's Oulipo Page
An interesting page with many links to reviews of Harry Mathews
Review of Oulipo Compendium by James Sallis
An interview with Harry Mathews
The Tramway of Strasbourg (in French)
Oulipo was commissioned by the city of Strasbourg to compose texts specific to each station of the city tramway. The site is extremely interesting, and features unexpected bonuses like works by Barbara Krueger also commissioned for the tramway.
Queneau's
Exercises de Style
(in French)
Queneau's seminal book on-line.
A page on Queneau (English)
A page on Queneau (in French)
An excellent page compiled by Suzanne Bagoly
A French journal devoted to Constraint-based Writing (Oulipians published in it)
A site devoted to Palindromes
Blowpipe Trombone Trio
Oulipo-inspired poetry experiments.
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