Several People Are Typing - by Calvin Kasulke (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm finds his consciousness uploaded into the company's internal Slack channel"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b>A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. <p/>An absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism.--Carmen Maria Machado, author of <i>In the Dream House</i></b> <p/><b><b>Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack messages, this irresistible, relatable satire of both virtual work and contemporary life is <i>The Office </i>for a new world.</b><br></b></b> <p/>Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm has been uploaded into the company's internal Slack channels--at least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume it's an elaborate gag to exploit the new work-from home policy, but now that Gerald's productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from . . . wherever he says he is. <p/>Faced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists his co-worker Pradeep to help him escape, and to find out what happened to his body. But the longer Gerald stays in the void, the more alluring and absurd his reality becomes. <p/>Meanwhile, Gerald's colleagues have PR catastrophes of their own to handle in the real world. Their biggest client, a high-end dog food company, is in the midst of recalling a bad batch of food that's allegedly poisoning Pomeranians nationwide. And their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture. And if Gerald gets to work from home all the time, why can't everyone? Is true love possible between two people, when one is just a line of text in an app? And what in the hell does the: dusty-stick: emoji mean? <p/>In a time when office paranoia and politics have followed us home, Calvin Kasulke is here to capture the surprising, absurd, and fully-relatable factors attacking our collective sanity...and give us hope that we can still find a human connection.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>An absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism.<br><b>Carmen Maria Machado, author of <i>In the Dream House</i> and <i>Her Body and Other Parties </i></b> <p/>"An existential romp with a wicked sense of humor, Calvin Kasulke's debut novel is a Greek chorus of modern strife, a workplace of woebegone souls. It asks the important questions, like what it means to be a person, but also, what it means to be a gif. <i>Several People Are Typing</i> is a dirge for bureaucracy told by one of the funniest new writers @here."<br><b>Hilary Leichter, author of <i>Temporary<br></i></b><br>"<i>Several People Are Typing</i> is the first novel I've read that feels written of, about, and inside the internet. With cursed spreadsheets, pregnant lizards, backchannel smack-talk: dusty_sticks:, and the creepiest gifs in American literature, Calvin Kasulke doesn't just commit to the bit; the bit commits to him. If you've ever felt imprisoned by work, the internet, or your mortal body, buy this book twice."<br><b>Tony Tulathimutte, author of <i>Private Citizens<br></i></b><br>Calvin Kasulke knows what makes a spooky story good. Questions like: Is that thing real? Is he possessed? What otherworldly realm is this? Where are those wolves howling from? And the scariest: Did I reply-all? Finding human connection in disembodied Slack chat, <i>Several People Are Typing</i> makes the impossible seem possible.<br><b>Helen Ellis, bestselling author of <i>American Housewife </i>and <i>Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light<br></i></b><br>"A brilliant, laugh-out-loud funny slice of unglued genius about the triumphs and tyranny of the online workplace. Deliciously weird and wonderfully real, <i>Several People Are Typing</i> is a must-read for anyone who's ever suspected that the people on the other side of the screen are not all there."<br><b>Max Barry, bestselling author of <i>Lexicon</i> and <i>Providence<br></i></b><br><i>Several People Are Typing</i> is a winsome, light-footed book with deceptive staying power. It operates in the scale of the morning meeting, the memo, the brief aside, the 'are you kidding me' request for clarification, the of-the-moment decision of where to go for after-work drinks or whether and when to fall in love. Kasulke retains an unerring instinct for callbacks and repetition, never wearing out a single joke's welcome, instead establishing a rich archive of possible pasts to reference. The book runs on those little economies of attention and care that managed to make me miss working in an office.<br><b>Daniel Lavery, bestselling author of <i>Texts From Jane Eyre </i>and <i>Something That May Shock and Discredit You</i>, and writer of Slate's "Dear Prudence" column</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>CALVIN KASULKE is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. A Lambda Literary Fellow, his writing and reporting have been featured in <i>VICE</i>, <i>BuzzFeed, </i> and <i>Electric Literature</i>. This is his first book.
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