![]() ![]() ![]() A group of minor bureaucrats operating under the unfunded directive of “Homeland Security” try to start a commercial pornography site in order to generate revenue for their city. Because that is what the work is finally about, that wonderful redundancy we call ”art,” showing us once again.the way from death to life.”įrom take-off to landing, The Pornographers moves at the speed of sound through post 9-11 angst, yoga, bureaucratic helplessness, marriage, collective public insecurity and family. Happily, it is in the energy and inventiveness of its language that this novel is most alive. “In fiction of this sort, there is huge pressure on the line-by-line life of the prose. –Walter Benn Michaels, author of The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism and The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History “The single brilliantly funny voice of something genuinely new.” ![]()
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