My wife wrote a book...
Posted by ugarte
My wife wrote a book...
Posted by: ugarte (---.z75-46-65.customer.algx.net)
Date: June 19, 2009 11:21AM
On June 23d, Faber and Faber will be releasing Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture by my wife Carrie McLaren and her longtime collaborator on Stay Free! magazine, Jason Torchinsky. It can be pre-ordered on Amazon for around $12.
I will now spare myself the embarrassment of waxing favorably about my own wife's work and instead cut and paste the following blurbs:
"In his opening salvo in the mental war against the paradoxes of late capitalism, George W. S. Trow proposed a motto: ‘Wounded by the Million; Healed—One by One.’ What the editors of Stay Free! set up inside the brilliant framework of their magazine is an arena where writers can roll up their sleeves and get cheerfully to work at shrugging off the succubus of commercial culture—for their own sakes, and for all our sakes. This book is a treasury of Trow’s kind of healing." - Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude
“There’s no better way for you to avoid the pitfalls of our sinister consumer culture than by buying this book. Purchase it now. And make sure to browse the store’s wide selection of novelty bookmarks.” - Patton Oswalt, comedian, voice of Remy in Ratatouille.
“Equal parts damning and delightful, Ad Nauseam is a guide for every shell-shocked consumer besieged by American commodity culture, a battleground where the greatest danger is thinking you're smarter than an ad.” - Ben Popken, Consumerist.com
There will soon be a cool site for the book but it currently under construction. Until then, here is the publisher's page for the book and a picture of the cover, which I invite you to judge the book by.
For people in the New York area or with an iPod, Carrie will be on The Brian Lehrer Show on Monday 6/22, WNYC.org, at 11:40 am. For those not in the area, it is posted as a podcast shortly thereafter.
This book release party is also the July's Adult Education show, which you can read about here.
I will now spare myself the embarrassment of waxing favorably about my own wife's work and instead cut and paste the following blurbs:
"In his opening salvo in the mental war against the paradoxes of late capitalism, George W. S. Trow proposed a motto: ‘Wounded by the Million; Healed—One by One.’ What the editors of Stay Free! set up inside the brilliant framework of their magazine is an arena where writers can roll up their sleeves and get cheerfully to work at shrugging off the succubus of commercial culture—for their own sakes, and for all our sakes. This book is a treasury of Trow’s kind of healing." - Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude
“There’s no better way for you to avoid the pitfalls of our sinister consumer culture than by buying this book. Purchase it now. And make sure to browse the store’s wide selection of novelty bookmarks.” - Patton Oswalt, comedian, voice of Remy in Ratatouille.
“Equal parts damning and delightful, Ad Nauseam is a guide for every shell-shocked consumer besieged by American commodity culture, a battleground where the greatest danger is thinking you're smarter than an ad.” - Ben Popken, Consumerist.com
There will soon be a cool site for the book but it currently under construction. Until then, here is the publisher's page for the book and a picture of the cover, which I invite you to judge the book by.
For people in the New York area or with an iPod, Carrie will be on The Brian Lehrer Show on Monday 6/22, WNYC.org, at 11:40 am. For those not in the area, it is posted as a podcast shortly thereafter.
This book release party is also the July's Adult Education show, which you can read about here.
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