Library of Congress Accepts First Emoji Novel

It's been more than 30 months since New York City micro-engineer Fred Benenson put the last smiley face on his epic new media novel Emoji Dick. But the hits keep coming for his Kickstarter-funded remake of Moby-Dick, which refashions Herman Melville's 212,000-plus words into emojis, those Japanese picture characters that kids send through text.

Tuesday morning, Benenson took to his Kickstarter page to announce that he'd recently received a call from the Library of Congress, and they're interested in doing business.

"They wanted to acquire Emoji Dick as the first emoji book in their collection," Benenson wrote to his 83 backers. "So as of very recently, Emoji Dick is now officially…
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