Board
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (844 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B009V7FKI0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 428 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"The perfect book for the Twitter culture" according to Greg Olear. If essays published on the Internet are disposable (and they are, although they paradoxically live forever), the comments on those pieces are even more so. But there are gems to be discovered, if you know where to look, and Benton and Listi know.This collection of stray sentences and paragraphs and online exchanges was culled from many thousands of comments beneath the main pie
Board is a groundbreaking work of literary collage derived entirely from comment boards at The Nervous Breakdown, an online culture magazine and literary community founded in 2006. A sharp, funny, and unexpectedly moving take on contemporary America in the digital age." —David Shields, author of Reality Hunger and How Literature Saved My Life"A must-read…exhilarating, hypnotic, hilarious, and fun." —Jeff Ragsdale, author of Jeff, One Lonely Guy "Fascinating, funny, full of enthusiasm and great loneliness…a portrait of the web in its own words." —Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day "Sweet." —Megan Boyle, author of selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee. And painfully honest. "Expertly interweaving its leitmotifs—technology, dreams, sex food, 'identity politics,' death—Board is a book in conversation with itself about a culture at war with itself. It is a cacophony of voices. It is str
He teaches English and creative writing at Santa Monica College. Please visit him at bradlisti and myspace/bradlisti. . He received his BFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his MFA from the University of Southern California. Brad Listi was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
He teaches English and creative writing at Santa Monica College. . About the Author Brad Listi was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his BFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his MFA from the University of Southern California. Please visit him at bradlisti and myspace/bradlisti