My book is on Barnes & Noble now:
I can remember going to Barnes & Noble bookstores with my aunt in New Jersey when I was a kid. She would buy me any book I wanted … she probably still would, too. When I was a kid, books in a bookstore always seemed authoritative: there was something definitive about a book, something solid. There still is, of course (even though nobody reads books anymore) but it comes as a surprise nonetheless to see my own book listed on 
Barnes & Noble.It’s not in stock yet, but that will change soon. And then I’ll return to New Jersey in triumph to buy it. I’ll buy one for my aunt, too. And if people are more content to read blogs than books, then I’ll have to use stealth to get my book into their hands: I designed my book to be small, slimmer than a volume of Mexican poetry — I designed my book to compete with the internet, which is inherently visual in nature. Illustrations make up nearly half of my book, and the portion which remains is elliptical … zenlike … like the kind of koans you get if you crossed the Osho Zen Tarot with a modern-day alchemy book. It’s the kind of book you can read in one night, in one sitting.And once you’ve read it, getcherself down to Barnes & Noble and write a review! Heck, you can probably write a review right now. You can say that my book is so zenlike that you grasp its meaning before you’ve even read it; you can say that you knew Jason back when he was once a two-headed tadpole in an ill-fitting necktie working for a dot-com company; and you can say that my book competes so well against the internet that you’ve decided to turn your computer off right now——
