Today’s NYT is carrying a half-page, mostly positive review of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, in the main book-review section. I’m doing a panel tomorrow called “Why I Dig Working in the Cultural Gutter,” but this may disqualify me!
Cory Doctorow is an avid Weblogger (he can be found at boingboing.net), and his novel’s ad-hocracies of ”twittering Pollyannic castmembers” who smoke ”decaf” crack and congratulate one another on ”Bitchun” ideas offer a knowing, gently satiric view of a once ascendant digital culture. And the impressively imagined world of the novel is tricked out in lively prose.
