Board eBook Justin Benton Brad Listi
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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. It is a unique artifact of the Internet Age and the digital revolution in publishing. It is a cacophony of voices. It is what your computer screen sounds like, only better. It is strangely moving. And painfully honest. And shockingly funny and mean. It is all of these things. And it is essential reading for anyone who spends too much time sitting slack-jawed in front of a computer screen.
"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. 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 —Megan Boyle, author of selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee
Board eBook Justin Benton Brad Listi
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 pieces at a popular literary website. The authors are in a sense archeologists, and in a sense collage artists, unearthing forgotten wit and wisdom from hundreds of different (and funny and insightful and wise) people, polishing them up, and presenting them in a cohesive way -- not unlike curators at a museum for lost words.
Are the comments worth preserving? I had my doubts, but goodness, yes. The closest analog to BOARD is F. Scott Fitzgerald's book THE CRACK-UP -- which is singularly appropriate, when you consider that the name of the site these comments were pulled from is called The Nervous Breakdown.
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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 pieces at a popular literary website. The authors are in a sense archeologists, and in a sense collage artists, unearthing forgotten wit and wisdom from hundreds of different (and funny and insightful and wise) people, polishing them up, and presenting them in a cohesive way -- not unlike curators at a museum for lost words.
Are the comments worth preserving? I had my doubts, but goodness, yes. The closest analog to BOARD is F. Scott Fitzgerald's book THE CRACK-UP -- which is singularly appropriate, when you consider that the name of the site these comments were pulled from is called The Nervous Breakdown.
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