Watchlist 32 Stories by Persons of Interest
β Scribed by Bryan Hurt
- Publisher
- Catapult
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 297 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1936787423
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β¦ Synopsis
"Including work by literary heavy-hitters... the anthology considers the act and weight of watching and being watched... and in Watchlist , these see-to-know quests range from funny to terrifying." --Los Angeles Magazine
In Watchlist , some of today's most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, meditate on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live. With contributions from Etgar Keret, T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover, Aimee Bender, Jim Shepard, Alissa Nutting, Charles Yu, Cory Doctorow, and many more, WATCHLIST unforgettably confronts the question: What does it mean to be watched?
In Doctorow's eerily plausible "Scroogled," the US has outsourced border control to Google, on the basis that they Do Search Right. In Lincoln Michel's "Our New Neighborhood," a planned suburban community's 'Neighborhood Watch' program becomes an obsessive nightmare. Jim Shepard's haunting "Safety...
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