Information Age

“How can you stand it?” a man asks a woman, seated on a building’s stoop as I pass by. The air is still and warm, conducting sound.

“First of all,” she says, “I can’t.”

The narrator of Information Age is a journalist at an online news site reporting on technology, the economy, and politics in the late 2010s. The rate of increasingly short news cycles shapes her working life and her personal life, as she assumes the role of reporter while talking with engineers, analysts, wonks, artists, writers, musicians, friends, family, and lovers. Told in vignettes and dialogue—overheard and divulged—Information Age is spare, funny, and attentive, a playful blurring of public and private life.

Paperback | 183 pages | 7" x 4.5"