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typewriter
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Jimmy Chen
A collection of thirteen flash fictions by Jimmy Chen concerning the fluctuating technologies of writing, searching, and finding unlikely things in an all too likely world.
saddle-stitched chapbook, 19 pages
Published
April 2009
by Magic Helicopter Press
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Jimmy Chen, known for being the funniest writer on HTMLGiant, displays deeper experimental talents in this brief chapbook from Magic Helicopter Press (Mike Young, I'm starting to realize, has a fantastic eye for talent). Great stuff here about fonts having a love affair, sad people surfing porn, social networks, and Amish emails. You should get this.
An essential mini-text of lite Gen Web 2.0 lit? At best, a little like Kafka's Contemplation. Always sort of 'sad' and 'lonely' -- even from the POV of a sans serif font. Never really revels in connection. A good, very quick, recommended, "right now" period piece–type read.
I'm a big fan of Jimmy Chen, and I've read many of the stories he's published online, including some of the stories in "Typewriter." So I had high hopes for the chapbook. Maybe too high. I guess I was expecting "Jimmy Chen's Greatest Hits with Never Before-Seen Soon-to-be-Greatest Hits" or something and while there are some good stories in it, I didn't feel like they all got over the very high bar he has set with a lot of his other work. Okay, enough of that. The chapbook cos...more
Morsels of goodness tightly packed to bursting with inventiveness and fun and wit and originality and all kinds of heart / belly filling happiness that is missing from your daily mind.
I discuss women, google and soup with the author: http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/05/02/j...
I discuss women, google and soup with the author: http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/05/02/j...
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Hello, I'm literature for the twenty-first century
Favorites: Adding Friends, Helvetica, Tomorrow's Tiring
I feel like today's topics, mainly the internet and stuff like that, need straight forward images to capture those moments. Jimmy Chen gets that.
Hello, I'm literature for the twenty-first century
Favorites: Adding Friends, Helvetica, Tomorrow's Tiring
I feel like today's topics, mainly the internet and stuff like that, need straight forward images to capture those moments. Jimmy Chen gets that.
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