Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes (Paperback)
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Description
Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes is an anthology of forty-three interviews with minds of all kinds.
“This book is an exotic plant with roots sucking nutrients from the skulls of the most interesting people on the planet. Prepare to be pollinated.”
– Mark Frauenfelder, founder of boingboing.net
Spanning over seven years, Follow for Now includes interviews with such luminaries as Bruce Sterling, Douglas Rushkoff, DJ Spooky, Philip K. Dick, Aesop Rock, Erik Davis, Howard Bloom, David X. Cohen, Richard Saul Wurman, N. Katherine Hayles, Manuel De Landa, Rudy Rucker, Milemarker, Steve Aylett, Doug Stanhope, Paul Roberts, Shepard Fairey, Tod Swank, dälek, Eric Zimmerman, Steven Johnson, Mark Dery, Geert Lovink, Brenda Laurel, and many, many more.
Published through Roy Christopher’s own Well-Red Bear imprint, Follow for Now is an eclectic, independently-minded snapshot of the intellectual landscape at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It also includes an extensive bibliography, a full index, and weighs in at nearly 400 pages.
About the Author
Roy Christopher holds a master’s degree in Communication Theory from San Diego State University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Communication Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to graduate work, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Social Science, and spent over twenty years working as a writer, editor, and designer both on- and off-line. He has written about technology, science, music, and culture for everything from glossy national magazines and regional weeklies to hometown newspapers and homegrown ‘zines, and he has consulted for such diverse organizations as Microsoft, Nike, MSN Music, the United States Army, Xbox, and Zero Skateboards.
