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Aug.05.2010
My satirical political novel "Pop Apocalypse" presents a future world in which the U.S. goes on an invasion spree around the world. Among other places, I had my fictional U.S. invade Iceland. It seemed like a great gag: Why would the U.S. want to invade a tiny country of 250,000 people...
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Oct.11.2009
I have been long remiss in my duties as a blogger here. If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, please join me for a reading I will be involved with as part of the ongoing Litquake festivities around the city. I will be participating in Litcrawl (phase two) at the Modern Times bookstore...
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Jul.24.2009
I've been woefully negligent as a blogger, too busy putting the finishing touches on my dissertation (which is on irony and what I'm calling postirony in American literature) to do much else.
After three years of (more or less) continuous work, I am going to print the sucker off next week and give...
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May.09.2009
My fellow Pop Apocalyptarians: Check out this article, published in the latest issue of Palo Alto Weekly, featuring yours truly. It's quite nice, and it gives a good sense of what the book is about and what I was aiming for when I was writing it.
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Apr.19.2009
With a little more than a week to go before POP APOCALYPSE is released into the world, I was pleased to read this thoughtful review of the novel by British science fiction writer Adam Roberts. Adam writes:
There’s a good deal of rattle and a certain amount of hum in this novel; rattle in the...
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Apr.06.2009
This week's Publishers Weekly mentions POP APOCALYPSE in an article on pending Apocalypse-theme books coming this summer. Check it out.
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Mar.05.2009
I received a note from my editor today informing me that Publishers Weekly has released its review of Pop Apocalypse. The verdict? Quite nice:
This playful and witty novel takes our celebrity-obsessed and media-hijacked culture, mixes in geopolitics and a dash of cyberpunk dystopia to create an...
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Feb.26.2009
The cover of Pop Apocalypse is now up on the Amazon Web site, so I thought this would be a good time to add a copy of the image here. I'm pretty excited with how it turned out.
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Feb.10.2009
I hesitate to direct attention to these two videos, given how horribly self-conscious seeing footage of myself makes me, but in the interest of blatant self-promotion I have heroically managed to overcome my hesitation.
A note: the videos say Pop Apocalypse is available now, but it's not of course...
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Jan.03.2009
The Olive, the Harper Perennial blog, has published a list of New Year's resolution-type answers by Harper authors. You can read my profound views on 2008 -- and predictions for what is to come in 2009 -- here.
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Nov.29.2008
There's not much news to report on Pop Apocalypse, but I thought I'd write a brief post here reflecting on my Thanksgiving.
I flew to New York on Friday to spend the week with my family, who live in Queens. I've been working on various applications for various things -- I'd prefer to be vague...
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Nov.13.2008
I received 25 galleys of Pop Apocalypse today at my department mailbox. The packaging of the books looks fantastic--great cover art, nice design, and so on. Now, I have to find 25 people -- potential reviewers, bloggers, and blurbers -- to send them to. Any suggestions?
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Oct.11.2008
One of the coolest moments of freshman authorhood is when you first see your book's Amazon.com entry. My inner narcissist is immensely pleased.
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Sep.10.2008
I have not forgotten you, my dedicated hardcore base of Redroom-profile readers.
Let me update you on where we are with Pop Apocalypse.
1. The novel has been copy-edited and is still on schedule to be released in May of '09. I've submitted my responses to the copy-edits and have submitted drafts...
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Apr.13.2008
This is the first of what I hope will become a series of Red Room posts leading up to the publication of my first novel, Pop Apocalypse, which Ecco/HarperCollins is going to publish in May 2009. First, an introduction: My name is Lee Konstantinou. I'm 29 years old, a grad student in the English...
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About Lee
I was born in New York City and currently live in San Francisco. In addition to novel-writing, television-watching, iPhone-fondling, and blank-wall-gazing, I teach writing at Stanford.
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