McSweeney's Issue 54: The End of Trust

McSweeney's Issue 54: The End of Trust
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Publisher : McSweeney's
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 1944211608
ISBN-13 : 9781944211608
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis McSweeney's Issue 54: The End of Trust by : Dave Eggers

"Through this collection, our first-ever entirely non-fiction issue, we wanted to make sure that, at this moment of unparalled technological advancement, we were taking the time to ask not just whether we can, but whether we should"- Page 8.

Radical War

Radical War
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 9780197660188
ISBN-13 : 0197660185
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Radical War by : Matthew Ford

This book examines the digital explosion that has ripped across the battlefield, weaponizing our attention and making everyone a participant in wars without end. "Smart" devices, apps, archives and algorithms remove the bystander from war, collapsing the distinctions between audience and actor, soldier and civilian, media and weapon. This has ruptured our capacity to make sense of war. Now we are all either victims or perpetrators. In Radical War, Ford and Hoskins reveal how contemporary war is legitimized, planned, fought, experienced, remembered and forgotten in a continuous and connected way, through digitally saturated fields of perception. Plotting the emerging relationship between data, attention and the power to control war, the authors chart the complex digital and human interdependencies that sustain political violence today. Through a unique, interdisciplinary lens, they map our disjointed experiences of conflict and illuminate this dystopian new ecology of war.

McSweeney's Issue 66 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 66 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
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Publisher : McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 1952119227
ISBN-13 : 9781952119224
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis McSweeney's Issue 66 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) by : Claire Boyle

McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly returns with 66th issue. A beautiful back-to-basics paperback, Issue 65 features a band-new story by Stephen King. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head), but always brings you the very best in new literary fiction. Praise for McSweeney's Quarterly "A key barometer of the literary climate."-The New York Times "McSweeney's is so much more than a magazine; it's a vital part of our culture. " -Geoff Dyer, McSweeney's contributor and author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

The Circle

The Circle
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 9780385351409
ISBN-13 : 0385351402
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis The Circle by : Dave Eggers

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

Mcsweeney's Quarterly Issue 62

Mcsweeney's Quarterly Issue 62
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Publisher : McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1944211918
ISBN-13 : 9781944211912
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Mcsweeney's Quarterly Issue 62 by : Patti Yumi Cottrell

McSweeney's Quarterly returns with our first-ever queer lit issue, promising you a brilliant boundry expanding volume of original work. "A key barometer of the literary climate." --The New York Times "McSweeney's is so much more than a magazine; it's a vital part of our culture. " --Geoff Dyer, McSweeney's contributor and author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasiand Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

Godforsaken Idaho

Godforsaken Idaho
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 227
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ISBN-10 : 9780544027763
ISBN-13 : 0544027760
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Godforsaken Idaho by : Shawn Vestal

Nine stories illuminate what it means to be Mormon and how faith serves to humanize, in a work that includes a seriocomic portrait of a young Joseph Smith.

You Must Go and Win

You Must Go and Win
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781429968553
ISBN-13 : 1429968559
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis You Must Go and Win by : Alina Simone

In the wickedly bittersweet and hilarious You Must Go and Win, the Ukrainian-born musician Alina Simone traces her bizarre journey through the indie rock world, from disastrous Craigslist auditions with sketchy producers to catching fleas in a Williamsburg sublet. But Simone offers more than down-and-out tales of her time as a struggling musician: she has a rapier wit, slashing and burning her way through the absurdities of life, while offering surprising and poignant insights into the burdens of family expectations and the nature of ambition, the temptations of religion and the lure of a mythical Russian home. Wavering between embracing and fleeing her outsized and nebulous dreams of stardom, Simone confronts her Russian past when she falls in love with the music of Yanka Dyagileva, a Soviet singer who tragically died young; hits the road with her childhood friend who is dead set on becoming an "icon"; and battles male strippers in Siberia. Hailed as "the perfect storm of creative talent" (USA Today, Pop Candy), Simone is poised to win over readers of David Rakoff and Sarah Vowell with her irresistibly funny and charming literary debut.

McSweeney's Quarterly Issue 59 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Quarterly Issue 59 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
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Publisher : McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1944211853
ISBN-13 : 9781944211851
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis McSweeney's Quarterly Issue 59 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) by : Claire Boyle

The 59th issue of McSweeney's National Magazine Award-winning quarterly is a back to basics collection of cutting edge literary fiction. Featuring the conclusions to Issue 57's cliffhanger stories by Booker Prize nominee Oyinkan Braithwaite, Brian Evanson, and Mona Awad. Original stories by: Julie Hecht Anjali Sachdeva Kristen Gleason Olivia Clare Rufi Thorpe Laura Lane Halle Butler Featuring letters by: Jenny Slate Brandon Hobson "A key barometer of the literary climate." -The New York Times "McSweeney's is so much more than a magazine; it's a vital part of our culture. " -Geoff Dyer, McSweeney's contributor and author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasiand Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

You Shall Know Our Velocity

You Shall Know Our Velocity
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9780307426086
ISBN-13 : 0307426084
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis You Shall Know Our Velocity by : Dave Eggers

An “entertaining and profoundly original” (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. • From the bestselling author of The Circle. “Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere.” —The New York Times Book Review "You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer.... Like Kerouac's book, Eggers's could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." —LA Weekly

How Should a Person Be?

How Should a Person Be?
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Publisher : House of Anansi
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9780887842795
ISBN-13 : 0887842798
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis How Should a Person Be? by : Sheila Heti

A brilliant portrayal of finding a beautiful life by one of Canada's most exciting literary talents, now available as an Anansi Book Club edition featuring discussion questions. How Should a Person Be? is an unabashedly honest and hilarious tour through the unknowable pieces of one woman’s heart and mind, an irresistible torn-from-life book about friendship, art, sex, and love. Part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part racy confessional, it is a fearless exploration into the way we live now by one of the most highly inventive and thoughtful young writers working today.