About Lurking
My book, Lurking, comes out this February and I hope you will check it out. If you enjoy this newsletter, you will like this book. (The book is a lot better than this newsletter.) It is a look at the last thirty years of online communities and online identities; what went wrong and what might still turn around or finally go right.
If you’d like to preorder the book—first, that’s very kind of you—it’s a preorder pick at The Writer’s Block bookstore, which offers a 15% off discount. You can also preorder from any independent bookstore or request a copy for your library. You’ll get the book and you’ll get to look at its loud, lovable, kooky cover up close.
If you might like for me to come talk about the book with your school or company, please send me an email. I’m scheduling events now. Anywhere in the Northeast is easy for me to do, and I also plan on visiting Portland, Atlanta, Las Vegas, LA, and probably San Francisco early next year.
If you’d like to hear more about the book, Jonathan Lethem quotes from it and discusses it in his review of Edward Snowden’s memoir in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books. (Which lead to this delightful, sort of shoutout from Snowden on Twitter.)
It is important to me that All My Stars remains its own thing—and free of anxieties over how many boxes of Girl Scout cookies I sold—so I set up a new newsletter for updates on Lurking.
If you’d like to keep up with updates about the book, please subscribe to the new newsletter or add it to your Goodreads to-read digital stacks. (Here’s the preorder link once more too :)
Thanks for reading!