Andrey Mir’s book, building on his recent series of books with pathbreaking analyses, is so far ahead of any other scholarly work in understanding what’s going on in the media world, and hence the world per se, today, that it hurts, even as it brilliantly elucidates.
There are a lot of generic and unfocused “it's the phones!” takes out there. In my opinion, Andrey Mir is the closest to offering a comprehensive, scientific characterization of society's relationship to media. – Joseph Weisenthal, Bloomberg
Andrey Mir's The Digital Reversal, building on his recent series of books with pathbreaking analyses, is so far ahead of any other scholarly work in understanding what's going on in the media world, and hence the world per se, today, that it hurts even as it brilliantly elucidates. You want to know where we are and perhaps what to do? Read The Digital…
If ever there was a time-travel ticket to a past and a place that you knew so well you could still see the sun glinting through the tree leaves, hear the din of the eateries as you walked by, and, most important, still hear the music that actually defied any given time or place, it would be David Browne's book, Talkin' Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital.
Condé Nast is the publisher of The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ, Wired, and other iconic magazines – including, for a while, Analog, which published 15 of my science fiction stories – so this book was must reading for me, and should be the same for anyone interested in publishing in America in the last half of the 20th century.
It's 1996, and in this alternate history novel about the Beatles, WFUV disc jockey Pete Fornatale walks in the tunnels under Fordham University, then travels downtown to Grand Central Terminal, and finds the world of music that he inhabits is very different.
As he struggles to understand how to get in and out of alternate realities, and make sure John Lennon is not killed in any of them, Fornatale will actually dine with John Lennon and David Bowie, consult with Leonard Cohen, attend a Beatles concert with Diana Ross in Central Park in 1996, and work with a variety of real life characters you may or may not have heard of.
