Ark Audio

This month Macon Holt fills in for Giovanna Alesandro for the 15th Ark Audio Book Club in which we discuss Jarett Kobek’s raucous and rather experimental satire of the cultural dominance of San Francisco’s technology industry. The book is a self-describe ‘bad novel’, and as the original subtitle reads, it’s also a useful novel against men, money and the filth of Instagram. The book is ostensibly about Adeline, a middle aged, kind of famous, comic-book artist with no eumelanin ( in the basal cell layer of her epidermis (more on that later) as she navigates the fallout of having gone viral as a woman with unpopular opinions in a society that hates women. But this is really just a structuring device for a detailed rant of a rage so hot it feels almost cool, on how what seems like the way of the future and the way of the world is merely the happenstance of power, prejudice and childish fantasy. Discussing the book this time are contributing editor of the Ark Review, Emilie Bang-Jensen, and writer and San Francis