In a “postliterate age” not too far hence, books are out of fashion—reviled for their limitations and their supposedly foul smell. Everyone communicates with electronic devices called äppäräti, and “text-scanning for data” has replaced “reading.” The propaganda produced by the bankrupt, totalitarian United States government is riddled with spelling errors. In t (...)
December 17, 2010
Books
Future Imperfect
Super Sad True Love StoryGary ShteyngartRandom House, $26, 334 pp.
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