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    Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest

    By Robert Coover, Katherine Karlin, Randa Jarrar and

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    “Writers like T.C. Boyle and Cory Doctorow contributed to this surreal anthology of short stories that riff on our modern surveillance culture.” —Entertainment Weekly
     
    With contributions from Etgar Keret, T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover, Aimee Bender, Jim Shepard, Alissa Nutting, Charles Yu, Cory Doctorow, and many more, Watchlist unforgettably confronts the question: What does it mean to be watched?
     
    In Doctorow’s eerily plausible “Scroogled,” the US has outsourced border control to Google, on the basis that they Do Search Right. In Lincoln Michel’s “Our New Neighborhood,” a planned suburban community’s Neighborhood Watch program becomes an obsessive nightmare. Jim Shepard’s haunting “Safety Tips for Living Alone” imagines the lives of the men involved in the US government’s fatal attempt to build the three Texas Tower radar facilities in the Atlantic Ocean during the Cold War. Randa Jarrar’s “Testimony of Malik, Israeli agent #287690” is “a sweet and deftly handled story of xenophobia and paranoia, reminding us that such things aren’t limited to the West” (Sabotage Reviews) and Alissa Nutting’s “The Transparency Project” is a creative, speculative exploration of the future of long-term medical observation.
     
    “Including work by literary heavy-hitters . . . the anthology considers the act and weight of watching and being watched . . . and in Watchlist, these see-to-know quests range from funny to terrifying.” —Los Angeles Magazine
     
    “Smart, eclectic and carefully observed, this collection illuminates the darker corners within our culture and within our private lives.” —San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “A boldly imaginative, diverse collection of 32 surveillance-themed stories from an international coterie of writers . . . The varied cross-section of material is stylishly captured by each writer’s distinct voice and perspective.” —Publishers Weekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 1, 2016
    ISBN9781936787425
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    • 2/5
      some good ones. a lot of them seemed to come apart at the final paragraph. a lot of buildup for a weak punchline.

      "safety tips for living alone" by jim shepard was my favorite. comparatively straightforward, but engrossing and damn tragic.

      the day i read "our new neighborhood" i watched an x-files episode that was kind of just like it ("arcadia").

      wow, this is my longest review.