Last night I prowled the Mission with many others as part of the Litcrawl. It was good, but the best part was literary yet not part of the event. I passed a laundromat when going from one venue to another and saw in the window a woman reading an ebook. It's said that women love ebooks because there's no book cover that would out them as readers of porn or romance, and this is true. However, this woman had her ebook set to large print, so as I passed I saw filling her little screen
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All riiiight!
Also yesterday, I bought a book. Check out the brave font choice here!
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Everyone's favorite Canadian writer Margaret Atwooooooooo! If you squint, you can see the slight difference between the Os and the D, but you do have to squint. My close-up photo makes it much easier, really. Great job, Nan Talese.
Finally, I also found out last night that Sensation (which you should totally buy) was reviewed in Maximum RocknRoll in the November issue. Bound Together Bookstore (where you can totally buy Sensation) carries the zine, do I picked it up this morning on the way back from taiji. Some highlights from the print-only review:
Sensation careens all over the literary map. Author Nick Mamatas spices up his loopy tale (part sci-fi, part horror, part mystery, part romance) with dabs of politics, sociology, biology, and Web 2.0 technology...Mamatas' writing style is light and airy, and his plot leaps along, delivering these concepts to the reader almost as an afterthought.
Mamatas parodies earnest Web 2.0 activists; his satiric barbs will be familiar to anyone who's technologically engaged in 2011...Simultaneously, he clearly is not just a contrarian reacting against anyone who actually cares about humanity or the planet—he kids because he cares.
[some stuff about seamless infodumps about parasitic neuromodulation]
This skill, this suppleness of style, permeates the book. The author's wit and flexibility allows the story to include absurdities like World Wrestling Entertainment's "Monday Night Raw." Anonymous-style hackers, a brooklynvegan spoof site called williamsburgist, and surrealist poster pranks in addition to weighty issues like parasites, free will, living on the run, human nature, and spiders. Lots and lots of spiders.
This clever, funny, smart and occasionally icky novel lives up to its name. It's a sensation! —Jesse Luscious.
All riiiight!
Also yesterday, I bought a book. Check out the brave font choice here!
Everyone's favorite Canadian writer Margaret Atwooooooooo! If you squint, you can see the slight difference between the Os and the D, but you do have to squint. My close-up photo makes it much easier, really. Great job, Nan Talese.
Finally, I also found out last night that Sensation (which you should totally buy) was reviewed in Maximum RocknRoll in the November issue. Bound Together Bookstore (where you can totally buy Sensation) carries the zine, do I picked it up this morning on the way back from taiji. Some highlights from the print-only review:
Sensation careens all over the literary map. Author Nick Mamatas spices up his loopy tale (part sci-fi, part horror, part mystery, part romance) with dabs of politics, sociology, biology, and Web 2.0 technology...Mamatas' writing style is light and airy, and his plot leaps along, delivering these concepts to the reader almost as an afterthought.
Mamatas parodies earnest Web 2.0 activists; his satiric barbs will be familiar to anyone who's technologically engaged in 2011...Simultaneously, he clearly is not just a contrarian reacting against anyone who actually cares about humanity or the planet—he kids because he cares.
[some stuff about seamless infodumps about parasitic neuromodulation]
This skill, this suppleness of style, permeates the book. The author's wit and flexibility allows the story to include absurdities like World Wrestling Entertainment's "Monday Night Raw." Anonymous-style hackers, a brooklynvegan spoof site called williamsburgist, and surrealist poster pranks in addition to weighty issues like parasites, free will, living on the run, human nature, and spiders. Lots and lots of spiders.
This clever, funny, smart and occasionally icky novel lives up to its name. It's a sensation! —Jesse Luscious.