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Life Is One Never-Ending Conference Call, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
January 27, 2014
On the Shelf
From ConferenceCall.biz, a gif-art project by Zach Scott.
Who needs the titillations of Page Six and entertainment media when we have
the fifteen hottest affairs in literature
?
Who needs a soul deadening nine-to-five when we have
the ten worst jobs in literature
?
… And, for that matter, “
a site that perfectly captures the existential despair of the conference call
?”
Victor Hugo: poet, novelist, playwright,
furniture designer
.
At last, a map that lets you take that
dystopian walking tour of Manhattan
you’re always going on about.
On Goliardia Sapienza’s
The Art of Joy
, an erotic seven-hundred-page doorstop now available in English: “
the novel reads less like a handbook on happiness than like a sadomasochistic Italian novelization of
The Joy of Sex
.”
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