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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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i really like the physical texture of this book. i like the second page of the book which says ‘first edition april 2009, 75 numbered copies.’ i like things that have a limited existence, my copy is number 67. i like that the font this book was printed/typed in is named. courier new is a typewriter-ish font i guess. there is some information re where some pieces were originally published online which made me wonder at first how cohesive the book would...more
i really like the physical texture of this book. i like the second page of the book which says ‘first edition april 2009, 75 numbered copies.’ i like things that have a limited existence, my copy is number 67. i like that the font this book was printed/typed in is named. courier new is a typewriter-ish font i guess. there is some information re where some pieces were originally published online which made me wonder at first how cohesive the book would...more
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.
Read this chapbook in a sitting and thought "Wow, this guy is really smart and funny." Chen has a wit and awareness to his writing that you don't find every day, and he isn't afraid to put puns and social commentary in the same sentence. A nice short read, and I sincerely hope he puts out some longer stuff soon. I'll be one of the first in line to read it.
Highlights: "The Typographer," "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe," "Helvetica," "Garamond"
Highlights: "The Typographer," "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe," "Helvetica," "Garamond"
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/2009/05/0...
I discuss women, google and soup with the author: http://www.writers-bloc.net/2009/05/0...
Touch the words with your soul.
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 cost $6 and was still w...more
an uncompromising voice in canadian fiction
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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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“There is a novella inside every anus; there is a broken heart inside every mind; there is a bisected hug inside every arm; there is a pun inside every belly. "The Great American Novel," thinks the typographer, who at this point is severely constipated. He tries to squeeze out an 'o' but can't. "The Great American Navel," he says, then waits for a laugh.”
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