Megan Boyle

"In 2013, Megan Boyle was unhappy with the life she was living and wanted to document it on the internet for an audience. Her hope was that if she documented each thought and action on the internet, then she would begin to behave in a manner more appropriate to the life she wanted to live. She needed a judge and a jury to see her crimes and non-crimes, her actions and thoughts, and her life. The results are an illuminating text of great length with poetic insight on every page. It is a reading experience that leaves a little bit of Megan Boyle inside of you long after you have finished reading it. This is akin to Karl Ove Knausgard's My Struggle and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, yet totally different and new--and it is a book of daring length. Drugs, love, home, parents, friends, life, death, work, and the internet. LIVEBLOG is an historical text, extremely unique and shockingly human." -- Page 4 of cover.

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Anthony Sabourin

I was reading the liner notes for a jazz record because that's the kind of asshole I am and the notes said something to the effect of 'some people think this is just noise, but I, an enlightened listener, recognize this as pure creative expression' and when I listened to it I sat on my couch like a dummy trying to figure out which was true. And of course nothing is ever one thing, so at times the record sounded like the transcendent moment of discovery and there were times where it sounded like searching; restless and searing.

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