Last week I did a quick, fun interview with ABC News in New York, outside one of the bigger Apple Stores. We talked For the Win, the iPad, and copyright reform. The ABC folks were good enough to put the video online and make an embed available, too.
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Review:
Globe and Mail
This is an ambitious tale featuring a dozen tech-savvy narrators from around the world who all make their livelihoods playing and scamming video games. The cumulative effect of so many interwoven stories is that new ones feel like a layer of the previous. While each of the narrators could have easily been the star of his or her own book, they are instead strands of Doctorow’s global web, proving that everything’s interconnected.
Emily Pohl-Weary, The Globe and Mail
Hey New Yorkers aged 12-18! I’m headed to the New York Public Library Grand Central Branch this morning at 10AM for a reading, Q&A and signing — hope to see you there!
Reminder: I’ll also be at powerhouse Books tonight at 730PM, and McNally Jackson tomorrow at 7PM.
Hey, New York! I’m in town for the next-to-last stop of my book-tour for my new YA novel For the Win, and I’ll be at:
* Books of Wonder, May 26, 6-8PM
* powerhouse Books, May 27, 7:30PM
* McNally Jackson, May 28, 7PM
The tour ends on June 4 in Toronto, with a stop at the Merril Collection — can’t wait to see you! (full schedule)
Reminder: There are plenty of libraries, schools, halfway houses and shelters hoping you’ll donate a book to them.
Review:
The Independent
These characters are neither post-modern nor post-anything much else; they are not bored, disengaged, ignorant, amoral. They are young people caught up in a global struggle for justice in a manner impossible even two decades ago, thanks to the new transnational space they inhabit.
It’s an arena whose unintended effect is to offer its players a crash course in the game-like nature of the political and economic battles waged around them – as well as providing a context within which friendships can grow irrespective of race, nationality, wealth, age, gender or creed. Doctorow’s American teenager teaches himself Mandarin in his spare time, the better to play alongside his guild buddies, even while his parents bemoan the uselessness of his gaming habit.
Tom Chatfield, The Independent
Alex Schoenfeldt came to the EFF benefit I did last night in San Francisco and shot a great set of photos while there.
Photos from EFF benifit Geek Reading: Cory Doctorow’s ‘For the Win'”
Hey, Austinites! I’m headed your way tomorrow (Thurs) for the next leg of my book-tour. I’ll be reading at BookPeople at 7PM, and then heading to EFF-Austin’s WhuffieFest, a fundraiser/party at Amelia’s RetroVogue and Relics, 2213 South 1st Street in the 78704. I haven’t been to Austin since SXSW 2003, and I can’t wait to get back!
Tonight’s my last night in San Francisco, and it’s the capstone of the Bay Area leg: the Electronic Frontier Foundation fundraiser/party at the 111 Minna Gallery at 7:30. I’m really looking forward to this — a great way to end a fantastic stop in one of the cities of my heart.
After Austin, it’s off to Cary, NC (Saturday) and Chapel Hill, NC (Sunday), then New York and Brooklyn, and finally Toronto, my hometown. Here’s the full tour schedule.
A reminder to fans of the free download: there’s an amazing list of libraries, schools, youth shelters, halfway houses and other worthy institutions that are looking for donations of copies of the book. If you liked the ebook and want to thank me, the best way to do that is to donate a copy to one of them.
Hey, Austinites! I’m headed your way tomorrow (Thurs) for the next leg of my book-tour. I’ll be reading at BookPeople at 7PM, and then heading to EFF-Austin’s WhuffieFest, a fundraiser/party at Amelia’s RetroVogue and Relics, 2213 South 1st Street in the 78704. I haven’t been to Austin since SXSW 2003, and I can’t wait to get back!
Tonight’s my last night in San Francisco, and it’s the capstone of the Bay Area leg: the Electronic Frontier Foundation fundraiser/party at the 111 Minna Gallery at 7:30. I’m really looking forward to this — a great way to end a fantastic stop in one of the cities of my heart.
After Austin, it’s off to Cary, NC (Saturday) and Chapel Hill, NC (Sunday), then New York and Brooklyn, and finally Toronto, my hometown. Here’s the full tour schedule.
A reminder to fans of the free download: there’s an amazing list of libraries, schools, youth shelters, halfway houses and other worthy institutions that are looking for donations of copies of the book. If you liked the ebook and want to thank me, the best way to do that is to donate a copy to one of them.
Review:
Rick Kleffel
Expect Doctorow’s usual skill with plotting, prose and pace to ensure that you’ll finish this book with the same fever any much-desired title will instill. There are a lot of great Big Ideas rattling around in here, told in a manner that even adults can grok. ‘For the Win’ is already a winner.
Rick Kleffel, Trashotron
