The Dog with the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR and Elsewhere [Paperback]

Andrei Codrescu (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 1997

In this collection of essays, Codrescu focuses his keen eye on America in the "age of the chip." He confronts the convulsions of our post-ideological world at a time when "the advent of cyberspace and the caffeinating of America have occurred simultaneously." With poignancy and trenchant humor, he takes us on a roller-coaster tour of our dramatically changing country.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

A star of National Public Radio examines the absurdities of modern life in a wide-ranging collection of essays. Codrescu writes of people who are having dreams about cyberspace and others who are simply obsessed with it; about his experiences going back to his native Romania; about meeting Miss America; about traveling by bus and by plane; and about one very odd dog with her own Internet address. Throughout all of it, the reader is engaged by a deft tension between Codrescu's charmingly boundless optimism and his wry world-weariness. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Publishers Weekly

The pieces in this latest collection from Codrescu, writer (The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans) and commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered, either have been published previously or were parts of radio broadcasts. The author emigrated to the U.S. in 1966 from Romania, and several of these incisive essays deal with conditions in the post-communist world. An admitted Luddite, Codrescu takes on computers, cyberspace and virtual reality in a series of ironic and witty articles that criticize the electronic revolution for, among other things, inhibiting creativity and eroding freedom and leisure time. He includes entertaining remarks on talk shows, airline travel and the experience of visiting the Coca-Cola Museum. This is informed and entertaining commentary that, despite the humor, makes clear the author's deep concern for his adopted country and for the future of humanity.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Picador (October 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312168195
• ISBN-13: 978-0312168193
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,494,666 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Andrei Codrescu (codrescu.com) was born in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania. His first poetry book "License to Carry a Gun" won the Big Table Poetry award. He founded Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books & Ideas (corpse.org), taught literature and poetry at Johns Hopkins University, University of Baltimore, and Louisiana State University where he was MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English. He is a regular commentator on NPR's All Things Considered since 1983, has received a Peabody Award for writing and starring in the film "Road Scholar. In 1989 he returned to his native Romania to cover the fall of the Ceausescu regime for NPR and ABC News, and wrote "The Hole in the Flag: an Exile's Story of Return and Revolution." He is the author of books of poetry, novels, essays; the most recent are "The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess," (2009) "The Poetry Lesson" (2010) and "whatever gets you through the night: a story of sheherezade and the arabian entertainments" (2011), all published by Princeton University Press.