An epically brilliant work by a great American artist and author -- Jonah Peretti, co-founder of Buzzfeed
It is hard to imagine a book more of its time than Working on My Novel... Arcangel has reflected something poignant about this collective yearning for creative individuation, about how technology seems to facilitate self-expression while effecting a strange obliteration of the individual-a symbolic compression of the self into the repository of the personal brand... The playful suggestion here seems to be that Working on My Novel is itself actually a novel * New Yorker *
Arcangel's work regularly uses appropriation, whether it's hacking video games, excavating Andy Warhol old computer console illustrations or creating hi-tech art inspired by Kelly Clarkson's Since U Been Gone. Working On My Novel sticks to those themes of endless recycling, transferring one form of media to create another - and as always, it's pretty funny * Dazed and Confused *
Can't wait to finish this : ) so can work on my #novel -- Mark Sinclair * Creative Review *
The tweets were found by searching Twitter for the phrase working on my novel, and originally compiled at Arcangel's twitter account, @wrknonmynovel. Seriously meta. And seriously funny-sad * io9.com *
For some, Twitter is both a distraction and a medium for a peculiar type of written soliloquy. It's the confluence of those two streams that makes artist Cory Arcangel's new book, Working on my Novel, particularly poignant * The Verge *
Man. I wish I'd come up with that idea. #amwriting * Engadget *
