{"product_id":"oof-an-online-outrage-fiesta-for-the-ages-paperback","title":"Oof: An Online Outrage Fiesta for the ages - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStrobe Witherspoon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAward-winning novelist and cultural critic Strobe Witherspoon interrogates his own profession. It goes terribly.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wildly entertaining ...Sometimes sad and sometimes hilarious\u003c\/b\u003e, Witherspoon's timely metafictional novel explores the ways (mis)information can shape public discourse in the digital media age.\" - \u003ci\u003eBooklife by Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Strikingly original \u003c\/b\u003e...an innovative literary experiment that supplies a thoughtful commentary on the 'discourse virus' of our age ...Witherspoon tackles a broad spectrum of media, including comically scathing excerpts from tweets, podcasts, blogs, and even academic journals and also keenly exposes the ways in which Strobe, the character, is implicated in his own online assault, due to his obsessive attachment to public life.\" - \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOOF\u003c\/i\u003e explores the role of satire in a society lurching from one ridiculous crisis to the next, where media outlets rely on clicks to stay alive and everything is filtered through a lens of anger and misinformation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e------------\u003cbr\u003eStrobe Witherspoon just sold his latest satirical novel for a lot of money. The book in question, \u003ci\u003eFLOTUS: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, is a fictitious autobiography about a former first lady of the United States reflecting on years of misery at the hands of her much older POTUS husband. When a chapter is leaked in advance of the book's publication, an Online Outrage Fiesta (OOF) ensues via news outlets, blogs, Twitter, troll farms, and everything in between. Witherspoon has his life placed under a microscope. Family secrets are exposed. Now, an anthology has been put together to document Witherspoon's downfall-and settle the score.\u003cbr\u003e------------ \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"an impressive achievement of unflinching honesty from a noteworthy talent\u003c\/b\u003e, as resonant and relevant as it is entertaining ...OOF tugs at the threads that connect American cynicism with radical extremism and weaves a character-rich tapestry of insight ...Each voice, whether of a \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e journalist or an Internet influencer, is rendered with uncanny fidelity. Perhaps most masterful is that key events are not depicted but merely alluded to, allowing the text to provide an elegant framework for a more personal story painted almost invisibly in the negative space.\"- \u003ci\u003eBlueInk Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 266\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52546513666355,"sku":"9780578889856","price":23.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Mm5reGUvSUcyV3h6VHFHbzVCbVA5QT09.webp?v=1760990298","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/oof-an-online-outrage-fiesta-for-the-ages-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}