howmuchumean2me: A Novel in the Form of a Book
Mary Walling Blackburn

Throughout the week, I receive ‘google alerts’ on car bombs via email and immediately parse through the missives and shifts them into a fictive realm; then, an amalgamated text is posted onto the Internet.

The form of the book (the rhythm of its ‘chapters/updates” and its content) is determined by the rhythm of car bombing: the posts are commensurate with car bomb occurrences and the rate and manner in which information technologies transport that data.

This novel’s triangulation of technologies (bomb/web/cell phone) is intended to echo the rapid adaptation of new technologies central to the nature of the car bomb. So the author cannot delay and furthermore, is uncertain about Mallarme’s decree: “There is no explosion like a book”.

Is this true?

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