An Old Junker
Howard Junker
Softcover; 146 pages
$10
"Whatever it else may be," says Brooks Roddan, IF SF editorial director, "An Old Junker is a report from the trenches. Junker's tale is smart, funny, sad, modest, and full of itself. Best of all he names names."
Junker distilled the book from the 1,306 daily posts
he made over five years, while still editing ZYZZYVA.
Junker's rambling plot includes rants, anecdotes, parodies and reviews. He savages Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen and Richard Serra, among others.
He denounces foodieism, directes renewed attention to Edward Bok, and The Tetherballs of Bougainville.
He insists that Kierkegaard is Post-Avant.
He details his day-to-day principles and procedures as an editor...and the agony of wrapping it up and searching for a successor.
And he spices up the text with candid i-Phone snapshots!
In a word, An Old Junker is a strange, marvelous, multi-genre first book—a blognovel, a proto-memoir, a novel of ideas, a coming-of-old-age novel,
a tech manual....
$10
