{"id":528,"date":"2003-11-10T14:50:05","date_gmt":"2003-11-10T14:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=528"},"modified":"2003-11-10T14:50:05","modified_gmt":"2003-11-10T14:50:05","slug":"i-saw-the-best-minds-of-my-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/528","title":{"rendered":"I saw the best minds of my generation."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pleased to announce that Inkblots<\/i> will be launching its autumn issue this Friday, as a stop on Kevin Smokler’s Virtual Book Tour. And you know what? I’m really stoked about this one.
\nDon’t get me wrong. I enjoyed the last two books, Stiff<\/i> and Screening Party.<\/i> But this one, Ethan Watters’ Urban Tribes,<\/i> is the literary equivalent of a home run for me. It’s exactly<\/i> the kind of book I’ve loved reading lately, an intelligent assessment of the weird-but-wonderful sociology of my whacked generation.
\nThere’s been a number of these books that I’ve really enjoyed: Free Agent Nation<\/i> by Dan Pink, Bobos in Paradise<\/i> by Dan Brooks, What Should I Do with My Life?<\/i> by Po Bronson, and The Rise of the Creative Class<\/i> by Richard Florida are all prime examples. Watters’ Urban Tribes<\/i> is definitely a member of the same breed, an intelligent, witty look-around-and-tell-me-what-you-see kind of book. I can’t wait to get him into this “virtual studio” of mine on Friday.
\nI do need a little time to prep, though. I’m still in the first part of the book, and the magazine is still somewhat nebulous in places. While I work on that, why don’t y’all follow the tour<\/a> – today he’s being critiqued (fairly sharply) by one of the webloggers who’s been in my daily-clicks list forever, Meg “Megnut” Hourihan<\/a>. Go on, shoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m pleased to announce that Inkblots will be launching its autumn issue this Friday, as a stop on Kevin Smokler’s Virtual Book Tour. And you know what? I’m really stoked about this one. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoyed the last two books, Stiff and Screening Party. But this one, Ethan Watters’ Urban Tribes, is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-8w","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}