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June: A Month in Characters
Disposable media. Diarrhea of the mouth. The mind’s dark secrets revealed with a push of a button. The words flow, even if no one is listening. What does that say about you? A picture might be worth a thousand words, but who needs that when we already have a hundred and forty characters
A month can tell a story, if you step outside the present long enough to let the past show you the way.
A month can tell a story, if you step outside the present long enough to let the past show you the way.
166 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2017
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About the author
Ian Thomas Malone
13 books401 followersIan Thomas Malone is an author, comedian, and podcast host. She earned her B.A. at Boston College in 2013, where she founded The Rock at Boston College and an M.A. from Claremont Graduate University. Ian's treatise The Transgender Manifesto is a bestseller in LGBTQ non-fiction. She has contributed chapters to academic books on James Cameron and Star Trek: Voyager. Ian's debut comedy album, Confessions From My New Vagina, was released in 2021. Since 2019, Ian has hosted the Estradiol Illusions podcast, covering entertainment and LGBTQ issues. Ian resides in Long Beach, California.
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November 5, 2017
This book will make you question not only your existence in this world, but also, more importantly, your existence on social media. June: A Month in Characters is thought-provoking and entertaining, perhaps more than you would expect of a book consisting almost entirely of the author’s stream-of-consciousness tweets.
The tweets themselves are amusing, if not sometimes nonsensical, but the real substance is in the introduction essay — appropriately titled “Why?” — and the afterward. In these essays, Malone reflects on and questions art, literature, and social media. You will finish this book feeling enlightened.
The footnotes on the tweets offer further insight into the project, sometimes pointing out typos in the initial tweets and often providing further context to what the tweets were about. Footnote 56 is especially intriguing and makes the whole book worth the read.
There is no doubt that this book is meta and abstract, but in that lies its value as a work of art. It is not perfect, because it is improvable, but it is still great. When Ian Thomas Malone is one day known for writing the next great American novel and Twitter is dead, this book will live on as a singular insight into her mind and this era.
Which is all to say, this book may only make sense if you are familiar with the author and her works; but if this is your first, you will certainly be intrigued enough to read more after finishing — even if just reading through her Twitter.
The tweets themselves are amusing, if not sometimes nonsensical, but the real substance is in the introduction essay — appropriately titled “Why?” — and the afterward. In these essays, Malone reflects on and questions art, literature, and social media. You will finish this book feeling enlightened.
The footnotes on the tweets offer further insight into the project, sometimes pointing out typos in the initial tweets and often providing further context to what the tweets were about. Footnote 56 is especially intriguing and makes the whole book worth the read.
There is no doubt that this book is meta and abstract, but in that lies its value as a work of art. It is not perfect, because it is improvable, but it is still great. When Ian Thomas Malone is one day known for writing the next great American novel and Twitter is dead, this book will live on as a singular insight into her mind and this era.
Which is all to say, this book may only make sense if you are familiar with the author and her works; but if this is your first, you will certainly be intrigued enough to read more after finishing — even if just reading through her Twitter.
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