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The Copywriter: A Novel
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A portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work.Its the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail startup, cant dispel a creeping sense of dissolution on the horizon. Whether it be the companys new twentyfouryearold CEO, who has more charisma than work experience, the growing distance between D__ and his longtime girlfriend, or a mounting sense of unreality in the wake of the first delirious year of the Trump administration, theres a sense that things are speeding towards collapseand that theyve perhaps been unraveling for some time.Borne along on these ambivalent straits, D__ begins to keep a notebook, filling it with everything: dreams, scenes from his own life, emails, and broadlydefined moments, both real and fictional, that he calls parablesattempts to learn from the underlying schedule of the universe, some music of the spheres that, if heard correctly, might help him finally understand his life, his art, and labor. Unfurling over the course of two years, season by season, The Copywriter circles a series of perennial questions, capturing in the process the unique absurdism of the gonebutnotforgotten era of office culture between the Great Recession and the COVID19 pandemic: How should an artist balance a job and life when art doesnt fit into either category? How does one find meaning in work that is stubbornly, uncannily, comically meaningless? Does one need to find meaning in ones labor at all? What concessions do we make for the sake of a paycheck? What does all of this do to our art, and our souls?Utterly original and lyrically beautiful, burrowing deep into contemporary disaffection without falling under its spell, The Copywriter is a comic story in the vein of Kafkas Jewish mysticism, following the absurd paths that office work can take us on, and the subtle ways in which seemingly mindless labor can determine our fate.
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