White Whale Bookstore: Celebrate the launch of Matthew Newton's Shopping Mall on September 9th at 7:00 PM.
Community Bookstore: Rolling Stone editor Jason Diamond will interview Matthew Newton about Shopping Mall on September 14th at 7:00 PM.
Skylight Books: Anna Leahy, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow and Evan Kindley will talk about Tumor, Personal Stereo and Questionnaire on January 27th, 2018. Mac's Backs: Writer RA Washington will speak with Matthew Newton about Shopping Mall on October 7th at 7:00 PM. 57th Street Books: Hear Kim Adrian ( Sock), Harry Brown ( Golf Ball), and Anna Leahy ( Tumor) in conversation on October 25th at 6:30 PM. I was absorbed enough to read it in less than an hour, without putting it down.Join our Object Lessons authors around the country to celebrate the release of eight new books in the series! Take a look at the events below to find one in a city near you. Surprisingly touching in some ways (the story of the co-founders of Sony, both having had strokes, communicating silently and remaining friends, for instance). It’s a short read, and I found it worthwhile. Always funny to see that we’re the same throughout generations… In some ways, the societal reaction to them was very similar to that toward mobile phones: they were making people anti-social, they were ruining all kinds of things, they were dangerous, etc. The author has quite the nostalgia for personal stereos, but tries to look at them critically and pick apart the nostalgia to see what they really were. I was that kid blocking out all the other kids, as a teenager, though by then it was definitely CDs/minidisk/iPod: I was the one in my own little world, and I needed it amidst all the bullying at my school - an aspect of why people might have chosen personal stereos that doesn’t quite get covered here, though the concerns about people going off into their own little world, as well as the pleasures thereof, are covered. I love the idea of this series, but I chose this one somewhat at random - and it was a winner for me! I’m just old enough to have used a Walkman for a while before I started using things like CDs and a minidisk player, before moving onto an iPod.
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