ASIN: B091D9BX4D
Publisher: Marginal Books
Pages: 268
Award-winning novelist and cultural critic Strobe Witherspoon interrogates his own profession. It goes terribly."Wildly entertaining ...Sometimes sad and sometimes hilarious, Witherspoon's timely metafictional novel explores the ways (mis)information can shape public discourse in the digital media age." – Publishers Weekly”Strikingly original ...an innovative literary experiment that supplies a thoughtful commentary on the 'discourse virus' of our age ...Witherspoon tackles a broad spectrum of media, including comically scathing excerpts from tweets, podcasts, blogs, and even academic journals and also keenly exposes the ways in which Strobe, the character, is implicated in his own online assault, due to his obsessive attachment to public life.” – Kirkus ReviewsOOF explores the role of satire in a society lurching from one ridiculous crisis to the next, where media outlets rely on ...
