This recent novel from Dave Eggers reminds me a lot of Nicholson Baker’s novel Checkpoint, which involved two friends meeting up in Washington DC for the first time in years. One friend’s anger, rage, and sadness at the direction of the country (under Bush) had calcified into fossil and he was explaining this to his new friend while also explaining his (ridiculous) plan to kill the president. In this novel, we have a series of dialogs between a man in his 30s and different people […]

Mae Holland escapes her dreary office job through the help of a good word from her best friend, and ends up working at The Circle, THE tech company du jour. The Circle runs everything, keeping all your accounts and data in one, easily accessible place. The brightest minds of their generation are working there, coming up with new ways to improve the world. Mae starts there in Customer Experience, answering questions and getting ratings for her performance. Mae is good at her job, but struggles […]