Momentitiousness

by Jason Leclerc

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Since they first named it, attention deficit disorder (ADD) has been a marker for the American generation who came of age between Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, with Prince or the Beastie Boys playing in the background while the Mario Brothers and the Golden Girls battled in the foreground. Back then, education, football, and Hollywood were wrapped in capitalism and sentimentality.

Embracing distraction and fighting with concentration, Momentitiousness captures the spirit and literary needs of this generation and its heirs with its spurious connections and tangential relationships. Loosely lassoing the possibilities enabled by the digital evolution toward boundless search, this novel collection first establishes the “you” and then proceeds to obliterate the “I” in multiple dimensions.

Nibble on this new literary form—obsessively perched between collection and novel—as it wanders along a least-squares path from moment to moment, from singularity to communion. Here, find stories—from arbitrage to zombies, Chicago to Columbia, dark to energy—about love and disappointment, science and spirits, and life, death, and the undead. Feast upon this antidote to the mundane as it irreverently exalts the soul of an ADD generation like a collection of first kisses: nostalgic and sweet, sensuous and raw, tenuously related, and well wrought.

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223 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 20, 2013

About the author

Born in Washington, D.C., just days before the Nixon resignation, something in the aura--was it tragedy or new beginning--has stuck on me like a gritty film that drips onto everything I do. I grew up in Daytona Beach, a beach-rat, saxophone player, and high-school cheerleader. From there, I was off to Tallahassee then Boston then Orlando for continuing formal education. All the while, I've been writing--poetry and essays mostly--as I travel America and the world. My most recent move to Tampa, Florida confirms that I am a citizen of the I-4 corridor, and a visitor of the world's skyways, highways, and beltways. I write under the digital avatar, PoetEconomist, and have used my first published work, MOMENTITIOUSNESS, as a new form for sharing the universality of my experience in a deeply intimate yet academic way.
The creative outlet for my critical method, Semiotic Arbitrage, finds life in my writing spaces. In The Poet-Economist poetry space, I strive actively to root out the sublime between the synapses in language. I stand firmly against ideology, including the ideology of rationality that has supplanted the individual with the rules of science. The Semiotic Arbitrage space is a bit more involved. I explode dense poetry into essayistic flaneurism. Semiotic Arbitrage is the trading of ideas or symbols--taking advantage of those symbols' relative weaknesses and strengths-- among (at least three) different people or groups to gain what I consider "cultural profit." It allows us to look at issues or moments--instead of on a binary continuum--as a multiplanar scatterplot. No more right or wrong, right or left, Conservative or Liberal. It allows us to replace the "or" with "and."
Bachelor's Degrees: Accounting, American Studies.
Master's degrees: Economics, Literature.
ABD: English concentration Texts and Technology.
Have had jobs as: Financial Manager, Construction Company Economist, Political Consultant, Night Club owner, Software consultant, University Adjunct, Author.

Visit Jason's website: http://www.momentitiousness.com

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Reviews

[Abbie D. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection of stories and poetry gives you everything. No specific genre is pinpointed, giving you all the variety you could ever ask for.

The common denominator? The evolved writing of Jason Leclerc, who's brain I truly believe is on a higher dimension of thinking. He is brilliant, creative and an innovative thinker.
Want your mind blown? Add this to your TBR list now!

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had difficulty getting through the book, not because the stories weren't good, but it jumped around. I know someone who is perfect for this book and am giving it to him. He has ADD and would find this book interesting.