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Only Americans Burn in Hell

By: Jarett Kobek

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Only Americans Burn in Hell

By: Jarett Kobek

A despairingly hilarious satire of the modern world, from #MeToo to Trump, by the bestselling author of I Hate the Internet.

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Serpent's Tail

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1788162218

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9781788162210

Soft & Cuddly

Boss Fight Books #15

By: Jarett Kobek

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A computer game so nauseatingly gory that it came with a barf bag. Bright druggy graphics that sickened scores of proper English parents. Gameplay so violent that it inspired one of Britain's most infamous killing sprees. Soft & Cuddly, released for the ZX Spectrum in 1987, wasn't quite any of these things. But in an age of manufactured moral panics, John George Jones's fluorescent punk manifesto sure pissed off a lot of people. Featuring new interviews with the the game's creator, Jarett Kobek's book dives deep into the gritty world of British yellow journalism, snarky computer fanzines, DIY home programming, and Soviet bootleg mixtapes. If Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party was right that "video nasties" like Soft & Cuddly were the epitome of 80s depravity, then this book is headed straight to Hell.

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122

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Boss Fight Books

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1940535158

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9781940535159

The Future Won't Be Long

A Novel

By: Jarett Kobek

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The Future Won't Be Long

A Novel

By: Jarett Kobek

“A brilliant re-creation of a disappeared New York of cheap rents, club kids and Bret Easton Ellis. . . . You can’t stop time’s passage, this absorbing novel reminds us. You can only find someone to love to help you survive it.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal “Have you been pining for tales of drug-fueled big-city debauchery set in the pre-digital era, when MTV was king, people still used landlines and hookups were orchestrated on dance floors instead of dating apps? Look no further.” —The Washington Post “Hard not to recommend. . . . Full of delightfully cynical aphorisms. . . . At the heart of The Future Won’t Be Long is the friendship between Baby and Adeline—at once loving and destructive and convincingly drawn by Kobek.” —Kevin Nguyen, GQ.com A euphoric, provocative novel about friendship, sex, art, clubbing, and ambition set in 1980s and ’90s New York City, from the author of I Hate the Internet When Adeline, a wealthy art student, chances upon a young man from the Midwest known only as Baby in a shady East Village squat, the two begin a fiery friendship that propels them through a decade of New York life. In the apartments and bars of downtown Manhattan to the infamous nightclub The Limelight, Adeline is Baby’s guardian angel, introducing him to a city not yet overrun by gentrification. They live through an era of New York punctuated by the deaths of Warhol, Basquiat, Wojnarowicz, and Tompkins Square Park. Adeline is fiercely protective of Baby, even bringing him home with her to Los Angeles, but he soon takes over his own education. Once just a kid off the bus from Wisconsin, Baby relishes ketamine-fueled clubbing nights and acid days in LA, and he falls deep into the Club Kid twilight zone of sexual excess. As Adeline develops into the artist she never really expected to become and flees to the nascent tech scene in San Francisco, Baby faces his own desire for artistic expression and recognition. He must write his way out of clubbing life, and their friendship, an alliance that seemed nearly impenetrable, is tested and betrayed, leaving each unmoored as the world around them seems to be unraveling. Riotously funny and wise, The Future Won't Be Long is an ecstatic, propulsive novel coursing with a rare vitality, an elegy to New York and to the relationships that have the power to change—and save—our lives.

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Penguin

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0735222495

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9780735222496

Soft & Cuddly

Boss Fight Books #15

By: Jarett Kobek

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Soft & Cuddly

Boss Fight Books #15

By: Jarett Kobek

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The Future Won't Be Long

A Novel

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A Novel

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Je hais Internet

By: Jarett Kobek

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Je hais Internet

By: Jarett Kobek

Après avoir commis « la seule faute impardonnable du début du XXIe siècle » – exprimer publiquement une opinion impopulaire –, Adeline, célèbre illustratrice de bande dessinée, devient la cible d’attaques haineuses sur les réseaux sociaux. Ellen, une jeune femme de vingt-deux ans sans histoires, subit le même sort lorsque des photos de ses ébats sexuels avec son petit ami du lycée se propagent de manière virale sur la toile. Dans le San Francisco de 2013, elles ont fait l’erreur d’être des femmes au sein d’une société qui déteste les femmes. Dans Je hais Internet, Jarett Kobek pose un regard satirique sur une société hyper-connectée, tout acquise au virtuel, intrusive. Il s’en prend à l’idéal libertaire aux origines d’Internet, et se demande comment les géants du net ont réussi à générer des milliards de dollarsen exploitant la créativité d’internautes impuissants, sans rencontrer d’opposition. À l’ère du sacre des réseaux sociaux, un récit jubilatoire et salutaire.

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355

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Fayard/Pauvert

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2720216585

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9782720216589

William E. Jones

By: William E. Jones,Honey Luard,Dorothy Feaver,Jarett Kobek

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William E. Jones

By: William E. Jones,Honey Luard,Dorothy Feaver,Jarett Kobek

For this exhibition, Jones has been a scripophilist, appropriating nineteenth and twentieth century stock certificates that traditionally symbolise monetary value through the pictorialisation of idealised manhood and physical strength. Inspired by the recent crash of the Euro and the US recession, Jones examined numerous company share certificates that had illustrated headers, such as those of the Harlem and New York Railroad or the Inland Steel Company, Pittsburgh. These certificates depict allegorical figures such as an Adonis-like man wearing a crown of leaves or a heroic manual labourer wielding an axe or sledgehammer, which

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Book's by Jarett Kobek

Only Americans Burn in Hell

Only Americans Burn in Hell

Soft & Cuddly

Soft & Cuddly

The Future Won't Be Long

The Future Won't Be Long

Soft & Cuddly

Soft & Cuddly

The Future Won't Be Long

The Future Won't Be Long

Je hais Internet

Je hais Internet

William E. Jones

William E. Jones

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