WHY are select bottles of wine or champagne of high value– and are guaranteed to increase in value?

Why can the same be said of many artworks– like a Van Gogh painting?

Because they’re artifacts of a moment in place and time in the actual world. A Van Gogh painting in particular, created by a unique human intelligence and a human hand. Something far, far different from temporary images created by electronically-lit pixels on a screen, for which the moment of time is always now. Which is why printed literature is superior to the online brand, which has no actual substance to it.

This is why the ultimate goal of the New Pop Lit project is to develop more unique kinds of print literary journals, a rare kind which can only increase in value– and especially will not be created by any kind of bot-driven artificial intelligence. We call the prototypes of such we’ve created to date, zeens.