I have yet to read, but the more my friends get caught up in the Gawker-culture, the online writing business, and the general New York gossip - the more this seems relevant. However, it does seem odd to tackle terrorism and blogging as two central themes? Or not? I dunno I guess I'll have to read.
NPR describes the book:
In New York's downtown, Aidan, a press blogger for a Gawker-like empire, socializes with his frenemies in the city's media demi-world, gleaning gossip for his next day's posts. As the book opens, the journalists he drinks with, sleeps with and then writes about are all working overtime, trying to crack the case of a terrorist bombing that rocked midtown earlier in the week. Meanwhile, in Vermont, an earnest young woman scans the Internet, searching for the next corporate target whose destruction will, she believes, enable her radical-left terrorist cell to shock a complacent nation out of its stupor. When someone sends Aidan an anonymous tip about the bombing, complete with a photo of Paige, the alluring young radical, he sets out to break a real news story for a change. His hunt will bring these two very different people and value systems face to face.
Joe Matazzoni, senior supervising producer, Arts & Life says:
...New Yorkers and fans of New York stories like Sex and the City will enjoy the novel's spot-on skewering of the downtown media scene, a landscape of fashionable people and dumpy apartments.
How a political terrorism thriller gets comped to Sex and the City is beyond me.
The AP says "Goodwillie provides us with a triumphant work of fiction that's every bit as credible as what's happening in the country these days."
And goodreads.com seems to have a highly favorable review (of the paltry 7 people who seem to have read the book).
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