About this Event
Join us for a paperback release event with novelist Alex Kazemi, discussing his latest book New Millennium Boyz. Joining Alex in conversation is author and documentarian Douglas Rushkoff. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.
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The debut novel hailed by Bret Easton Ellis as a “toxic teenage boy anthem,” that shook up the indie lit scene and landed on conservative book ban lists and controversial celebrity bookshelves, finally arrives in paperback.
Brad Sela’s slow suburban life takes a whirlwind turn when two new transfer students, Lu, a Marilyn Manson fan with an unpredictable evil side, and Shane, a depressed stoner, shake up his Y2K senior year.
As Brad dives deeper into the boys’ twisted world, he embarks on a dangerous journey, indulging his darkest impulses as he and his new friends document their most disturbing exploits on Handycams. As the boys’ antics spiral out of control, Brad’s double life edges toward exposure, pulling him further into self-destruction and chaos.
As deviant as it is defiant, this dark and satirical takedown of the extreme teen genre presents a documentarian’s portrait of the late 1990s, where traditional masculinity, the early internet, and pop culture collided. Provocative and alarming, Kazemi’s work critiques contemporary upper-class American life, crossing all lines as the book seduces, shocks, breaks your heart, and leaves you laughing—albeit sadistically. New Millennium Boyz presents an uncensored and unsettling portrayal of the year 2000 that never could have aired on MTV.
“Kazemi’s prose produces the same visceral response as an early Tarantino movie. Proceed with caution.” —Douglas Rushkoff
Photo credit: Lauren D. Zbarsky
Alex Kazemi is a novelist. He lives in Vancouver, BC.
Photo credit: Madeline Maher
Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well as the recent Team Human, based on his podcast, and the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States
USD 13.61 to USD 24.04
