- Published: 24 September 2014
- ISBN: 9781846147425
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144
- RRP: $22.99
Working On My Novel
- Published: 24 September 2014
- ISBN: 9781846147425
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144
- RRP: $22.99
An epically brilliant work by a great American artist and author
Jonah Peretti, co-founder of Buzzfeed
It is hard to imagine a book more of its time than Working on My Novel... Arcangel has reflected something poignant about this collective yearning for creative individuation, about how technology seems to facilitate self-expression while effecting a strange obliteration of the individual-a symbolic compression of the self into the repository of the personal brand... The playful suggestion here seems to be that Working on My Novel is itself actually a novel
New Yorker
Arcangel's work regularly uses appropriation, whether it's hacking video games, excavating Andy Warhol old computer console illustrations or creating hi-tech art inspired by Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone". Working On My Novel sticks to those themes of endless recycling, transferring one form of media to create another - and as always, it's pretty funny
Dazed and Confused
Can't wait to finish this : ) so can work on my #novel
Mark Sinclair, Creative Review
The tweets were found by searching Twitter for the phrase "working on my novel," and originally compiled at Arcangel's twitter account, @wrknonmynovel. Seriously meta. And seriously funny-sad
io9.com
For some, Twitter is both a distraction and a medium for a peculiar type of written soliloquy. It's the confluence of those two streams that makes artist Cory Arcangel's new book, Working on my Novel, particularly poignant
The Verge
Man. I wish I'd come up with that idea. #amwriting
Engadget