Yes, I might be the biggest nerd alive. (And, yes, I know, I'm late and the LOL backlash has begun.) But after stumbling across those loltheorists, I couldn't help but think, don't the non-theoretical writers who provided the material that inspired all that literary theory to begin with deserve as much LOL love as their theorist counterparts?

Yes, of course they do! And what authors offer better LOL fodder than members of the OULIPO—the mostly French cliqué of writers and mathematicians who unleashed their creativity by writing under unusual (and generally mathematically significant) constraints. OULIPO, in case you were wondering, is an acronym, and the words it stands for in French translate roughly to "workshop of potential literature."

Anyway, here's my lolOULIPO:

georges perec
Georges Perec, whose novel La Disparition does not include the letter "e" even once in 300 pages.
raymond queneau
Raymond Queneau, whose collection of ten sonnets is printed on paper that's sliced to allow the reader to flip through individual lines, providing a hundred thousand billion unique sonnets.
italo calvino
Italo Calvino, whose novel If on a Winter's Night a Traveler includes the reader as a character.

Now, so you don't think I've totally gone bananas with this LOL nonsense, here's a handful of the best OULIPO materials to be found online:

interactive Hundred Thousand Billion Poems
Create your own sonnet (of the hundred thousand billion available) in French and English.

OULIPO collection
A special issue of the online literary mag drunken boat. From the introductory essay, "OULIPO at 45" by OULIPO president Paul Fournel:

…the role assigned to Oulipo is simply that of proposing a constraint, giving a model of that constraint, and thus, allowing it to meet the text that will take on its form. [...] There is no ideal Oulipian text. The proposed structure is like that of the sonnet, into which Shakespeare, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé may choose to pour their singular talent.

Into the Maze
An essay by poet/translator Mónica de la Torre. Quote: "the more difficult the task, the better it feels to achieve it."

official OULIPO site
For francophones only.