Hi everyone!
I’m Brianna, Virginia’s Internet fanfriend, and I want to tell you about all the love forMAGIC AND LOSS.
There’s so much buzz out there that, even as president of the VH fan club, I can hardly keep up. But I’ve put some of the greatest praise in a LISTICLE for supermax enjoyment of reading.
1. Because Virginia's appearance on "The Open Mind" on PBS is incredible. And says it all. You can see it on PBS World today at 3:30 or just watch right here.
2. Because Mark O’Connell of Slate couldn’t stop writing “YES!” and “TRUTH!” in the margins.
3. And because the NYT’s Justin Ellis, in his fawning review, called Virginia “a gleeful trickster.”
4. And don't take it from me, Twitterers like @daviewheeler said what I wanted to say, which is that he can’t stop telling people to read it, The New Yorker’s @AdrianChen said he couldn't wait to read the book because V’s excellent “Medium” column (my absolute fav, too) “was a big inspiration” to him. Then, @emmafromtoronto (aka Emma Healey) took one read of "M&L" and went"wonderful wonderful wonderful"! And there was MORE from@CathyNDavidson, @KateBolick and mooooreeeeeee.
5. Uh, did I seriously wait till No. 5 to tell you GWYNETH GOOPALOOP PALTROW put MAGIC AND LOSS in her MFing SUMMER READING GUIDE?
6. The National Post's review of Virginia's book goes like this: "Hallucinatory splendor! Nobody else talks about the Web this way."
7. Because Shelf-Awareness.com just got it when they said, “The author illustrates that the Internet is more than just a technological leap forward; it's an artistic marvel.”
8. And but seriously, Edward Mendelson, of the country’s foremost authority on literature, The New York Review of Books, described the book as “an ecstatic narrative of submission.” Truth.
9. Because it comes in easy-to-consume AUDIOBOOK FORM, with this tasty preview that is just the tastiest of audiobook previews.
10. I nearly cried of the most joyous joy when Diana Kimball, in a beautiful response,wrote on Medium, “If the time you spend on the internet is important to you, Magic and Loss will be important to you, too. I recommend it completely,” because she is completely all-consumingly heart-explodingly RIGHT.
Want to read, watch, and hear more about MAGIC AND LOSS? BOOM:
Bookish: This Week's Hottest Releases
Men's Journal: Best Books of June
Bloomberg TV: The Digitization of Everything
The Felt Internet by Diana Kimball
Saturday Evening Post: Cool Books for Summer
Scott Goodson's Uprising!!! (podcast!)