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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872865396 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100315940 02 0872865398 03 9780872865396 15 9780872865396 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Look Down, This Is Where It Must Have Happened</TitleText> 1 A01 Niedzviecki, Hal Hal Niedzviecki Hal Niedzviecki is the founder of Broken Pencil Magazine and has published numerous works of social commentary, including The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors, Hello I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity (both published by City Lights) and We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture. He has also published two works of fiction, including The Program, a novel, and Smell It, a collection of stories. Hal is the subject of the documentary "Peep Culture" which premiered in Canada and the U.S. in 2011. Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened is his first collection of stories to be published in the U.S. 01 eng 02 eng 152 00 152 03 20 Canadian;fiction;short story 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Fiction 01 The acclaimed author of The Peep Diaries and Hello, I'm Special returns to fiction, and delivers a mind-altering collection of short stories that confront the hypocrisies, humiliations and hilarities of modern life. Hal Niedzviecki's past books have established him as one of North America's most interesting and influential writers. In Look Down he romps through social conventions, confronts society's intractable dilemmas and deftly captures the zeitgeist of our fractured times. * In "Doing God's Work," God's personal assistant devises an outlandish way to kill the deity by playing to his never-ending need for human attention. * "Prenatal" is a new take on right-to-life, wherein a pregnant 10th-grader finds herself struggling with her fetus's insistence that she abort him before both their lives are ruined. * In "Undead," a man struggling to come to terms with the death of a friend finds himself haunted by a funeral home’s online broadcasts. * In the epic "Special Topic: Terrorism," an undergraduate gets in way over his head when a class assignment to found a terror organization goes viral. "Look Down, This is Where It Must Have Happened" is a biting satire of nostalgia, a send-up of the way highschool-era friendships can permanently choke off the possibility of adulthood. Praise for Hal Niedzviecki: "Hal Niedzviecki is a remarkable writer." -- Margot Livesey, author of Eva Moves the Furniture "Niedzviecki is a gifted writer, thoughtful and insightful." -- The Globe and Mail "There's tons of talent here."-- NOW 02 A millennial masterpiece, wildly imaginative and boldly executed by a master storyteller and penetrating cultural observer. 08 "Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened reveals the super powers of story telling for the digital age—or any age . . . The collection encompasses a range of literary genres, from magical to domestic realism, from the absurdity of a fetus quoting statistics to dialogue so fresh you'll look around to see who’s talking." The Rumpus 08 "Hal Niedzviecki is a smart writer. In Look Down, a collection of short stories, he is writing of our times from our time and from out of time in worlds that don't yet exist...This is a successful book of short stories with soft surprises of beautiful language by one of the best writers of our time." Chico News and Review 08 "Look Down is novelist, cultural commentator, and Broken Pencil magazine founder Hal Niedzviecki's first collection of short stories since 1998. The stories here are raw, energetic, and, like the author’s 2001 novel Ditch, tend to focus on individual moments of intensity, often leaving the connective tissue between scenes implied." Quill and Quire 08 "In a way these stories are often a bizarre riff on the conclusions of Niedzviecki's intense observations of contemporary culture. They are also a cry from a moralist who warns us of the growing coldness out there, and presses us in his sardonic, crazy way to hold on to our humanity, however screwed up that may be, in the face of the ugly world of ubiquitous security cameras, reality TV and Internet overload." Winnipeg Free Press 08 "With dark humor and deep compassion, Niedzviecki, cultural critic and author of 'The Peep Diaires' (2009), delivers a haunting collection peopled by characters on the verge of despair. . . . Like David Means' stories, these convention-defying examples written in tight, punchy prose examine the fine lines between love and obsession, failure and success. A moving and amusingly varied collection." Booklist 08 "Fiction writer, social critic, and founding editor of indie literary magazine Broken Pencil Hal Niedzviecki has done it all. He has built his reputation on his ability to smartly skewer social conventions, picking apart aspects of our culture and revealing their absurdities. In his latest book, Look Down, This Is Where It Must Have Happened, Niedzviecki turns again to fiction, with a collection of 13 short stories that are both topical and timely. From terrorism to abortion, the subjects he grapples with are at the forefront of the public consciousness, as though ripped straight from today's blog posts, Twitter feeds, and status updates." Verbicide 23 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100315940/extras/LookDownExcerptCL.pdf 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100315940/images/87286100315940L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100315940/images/87286100315940S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100315940 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20110401 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20110401 01 02 15.95 USD