My novel, The Backroom Diaspora, is now available online as a PDF. It's free, and I hope people will read it. It's a fun read, I think, and it's basically about porn.
I'm interested in the tension
between literature and technology. I believe the form and vernacular of
digital media can be applied to the novel in a way that doesn't just dress up the story to look
contemporary but reshapes the narrative on a fundamental level. The Backroom Diaspora is a novel-blog hybrid, with textual/graphic play
in the tradition of Mark Danielewski and Marie Calloway. At its core, my novel is an addiction story, but instead of
focusing on addiction in the usual sense, it explores its characters’
relationship to the most abused substance of the digital age: information.
I'll admit, the word "blog" is off-putting to many readers. As formal techniques, blog posts, instant messages, and other modern epistolary forms have been overused. With that said, I think my book approaches these forms in a different way. I promise this: the book is not what you expect. Okay, that's all I'll say about it. Hope you'll read it.
Like I said, there's porn.
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