This Week In Paranoia
A roundup of recent United States of Paranoia coverage.
A roundup of recent coverage of my book The United States of Paranoia:
• Lewis Lapham interviews me at Bloomberg, and he writes a bit about the book too.
• Dan Rodricks interviews me on Baltimore's NPR outlet.
• Susan Scher interviews me for a podcast called In Other Words. The conversation includes an unexpected detour into the question of whether there is a secret "black government" run by the vice president.
• Edward Ericson, Jr., reviews the book in the Baltimore City Paper. He says some nice things about it and he makes some criticisms too; at times he seems a little confused about what I did or didn't write. I'm particularly puzzled about how he came to claim that I have "nothing to say" about how revelations of government surveillance "might change the calibration about what reasonable people consider 'paranoid.'"
• K. Paul Johnson reviews the book on the History of the Adepts blog. This is the first piece I've seen that focuses on my discussion of Theosophists and kindred mystics.
• Aaron M. Brown reviews the book on the Magic Blue Smoke blog. I enjoyed the phrase "even-handed, almost sympathetic, accounts of various hysterias through the ages."
• A reminder for New Yorkers: John Tierney and I will discuss the book onstage in Manhattan next Tuesday. Details are here. Admission is free but RSVPs are required; you can let us know you're coming here.
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You know who else mercilessly pimped their book?
Willie Dynamite?
I was thinking Jacket and Geek Specs, but that works.
Geek Specs? Lisa Loeb wrote a book?
She's not a geek. She's a dork.
Whole lines on that cover should be redacted. In fact, everything maybe but title and author should be, except maybe for some choice, conspiratorial words.
When oh when will Reason staff stop faffing around on blog posts and begin writing books? I bet Reason would even mention the books, to help sales
Yeah, but what did little cat pants have to say? oh, my bad, they reviewed it last week.
I just finished your book and it was better than I expected. Fucking excellent in fact.