NoiseA fast-paced comic extravaganza from the pen of the author of the runaway bestseller "How Insensitive." Set in the cynical and celebrity-obsessed world of mainstream media, and alternatively in the stultifying conservatism of suburban sprawl, a failed musician and intellectual nerd has become a freelance magazine writer and unwillingly been cast into the role of fashion arbiter. Reluctantly, and only for the money, James Rainer Willing agrees to interview the reclusive nationalist Canadian poet Ludwig Boben for the prestigious American magazine "Glitter." Willing's insanely busy and competitive life provides glimpses into the world of fashion photography, small-press poetry readings, expensive and fashionable restaurants (he is a restaurant critic), lifestyle' magazines, and a return to the suddenly-quiet life or non-life of ghostly New Munich, Ontario, where Willing revisits his one-time peers, the People Who Stayed Behind. |
Contents
Section 1 | 7 |
Section 2 | 22 |
Section 3 | 43 |
Section 4 | 66 |
Section 5 | 80 |
Section 6 | 87 |
Section 7 | 95 |
Section 8 | 105 |
Section 14 | 172 |
Section 15 | 181 |
Section 16 | 192 |
Section 17 | 200 |
Section 18 | 205 |
Section 19 | 213 |
Section 20 | 225 |
Section 21 | 239 |
Section 9 | 117 |
Section 10 | 126 |
Section 11 | 134 |
Section 12 | 146 |
Section 13 | 155 |
Section 22 | 257 |
Section 23 | |
Section 24 | |