Penguin Podcast 43 - The Teleconference
Welcome to the Penguin podcast, where today we're proud to present an experimental interview with Joshua Ferris, author of the celebrated debut novel Then We Came to the End. Enjoy.
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'How we hated our coffee mugs! Our mouse pads, our desk clocks, our
daily calendars, all the contents of our desk drawers. Even the photos
of our loved ones taped to our computer monitors for uplift and support
turned to cloying reminders of time served...' Welcome to the world of Joshua Ferris’s dazzlingly acute,
brilliantly original, agonizingly funny novel. The dotcom bubble has
just burst on an advertising agency on Chicago's Magnificent Mile.
Employees shuffle slowly up the steps towards the revolving doors,
afraid of what is waiting to greet them inside their cubicles... Then We Came to the End is about how we spend our days and too many
of our nights. It is about being away from friends and family, about
sharing a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers we call
colleagues. It is about sitting all morning next to someone you
deliberately cross the road to avoid at lunchtime. Joshua Ferris’s
fabulous novel is the story of your life, and mine. It is the story of
our times.
'A terrific first novel... the rhythms and
substance of a working day are slowly revealed to have the rhythms and
substance of life itself' Nick Hornby
Great interview - but why'd you cut Josh off at the end?
Was the arrival of the drinks trolley intended as a jokey denouement? If so, please halt the wacky experiments, you crazed funsters - I was keen to hear more of the interview!
Posted by: JJ | 04/02/2008 at 12:43 AM
We need to think on how we hated our coffee mugs! Our mouse pads, our desk clocks, our daily calendars, all the contents of our desk drawers.
Posted by: Real Exam | 04/04/2009 at 07:07 AM
Nice interview and yeah he is really nice man too.
Posted by: IT Training | 04/04/2009 at 07:22 AM