Shameless Self-Promotion: My book is out!

It has absolutely nothing to do with this blog, but I'll be damned if I let that get in the way of letting all 23 of you readers know that, as of today, I am a published author!  Yes, my book, Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to Consumer Culture is out today in quality book stores nationwide.

Here is the publisher's description:

With the style and irreverence of Vice magazine and the critique of the corporatocracy that made Naomi Klein's No Logo a global hit, the cult magazine Stay Free!—long considered the Adbusters of the United States—is finally offering a compendium of new and previously published material on the impact of consumer culture on our lives. The book questions, in the broadest sense, what happens to human beings when their brains are constantly assaulted by advertising and corporate messages. Most people assert that advertising is easily ignored and doesn't have any effect on them or their decision making, but Ad Nauseam shows that consumer culture does take its toll.

In an engaging, accessible, and graphically appealing style, Carrie McLaren and Jason Torchinsky (as well as contributors such as David Cross, The Onion's Joe Garden, The New York Times's Julie Scelfo, and others) discuss everything from why the TV program CSI affects jury selection, to the methods by which market researchers stalk shoppers, to how advertising strategy is like dog training. The result is an entertaining and eye-opening account of the many ways consumer culture continues to pervade and transform American life.

You can download the table of contents, foreword by NYT Magazine columnist Rob Walker, and preface here if you wish. Or listen to my coeditor Jason Torchinsky and I on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show yesterday. The book is available for purchase at many fine retail outlets (though we'd prefer that you place your money directly into our coffers).

I hope to do a reading at K-Dog later this summer with my pal Daniel Wright, whose book, Patently Silly, just came out as well. More on that when we get our act together.

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