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Scribner, October 2009
eBook, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 1416588124
ISBN-13: 9781416588122
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There’s no question that e-mail is an incredible phenomenon that represents a kind of cultural and technological advancement. The first e-mail was sent less than forty years ago; by 2011, there will be 3.2 billion e-mail users. The average corporate worker now receives upwards of two hundred e-mails per day. The flood of messages is ceaseless and follows us everywhere.In The Tyranny of E-mail, John Freeman takes an entertaining look at the unrelenting nature of correspondence through the ages. Put down your smart phone and consider the consequences. As the toll of e-mail mounts, reducing our time for leisure and contemplation and separating us in an unending and lonely battle with the overfull inbox, John Freeman—one of America’s preeminent literary critics—enters a plea for communication that is more selective and nuanced and, above all, more sociable.
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“[A] thoughtful and provocative book.”
-- Seattle Times
“We live in a culture devoted to technology, and yet most of us cannot find the time to consider its history or its consequences. John Freeman has made the time, and has thought carefully about how we have gotten here…. Freeman knows his history, and he offers an engaging account of the evolution of correspondence.”
-- Bookforum
“An elegant self-help book. . . . Freeman uses lush prose and invokes examples from great literature to make his points. He comes at things not from a giddy utopian perspective that permeates most writing about technology but from a humanist one. It makes the book refreshing and powerful.”
-- Boston Globe
“[Freeman] brings the reader a fresh, intelligent look at email’s infiltration into and influence over every aspect of 21st century life. . . . The Tyranny of E-mail serves as an engaging reality check.”
-- The Daily Beast
“Freeman offers up fascinating trivia . . . [and] makes a persuasive case that e-mail has at once corroded epistolary communication and strangled workplace productivity.”
-- The New Yorker
“E-mail is eating us alive . . . Luckily for us [John Freeman] has a solution.”
-- Chicago Tribune
“A book with a title this bold and provocative . . . requires an airtight and compelling case to back it up. To keep us reading, the book must also inform and entertain. John Freeman . . . delivers on all counts.”
-- The Oregonian
“Freeman vividly illustrates the moral, physical and psychic costs of 24/7 availability.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
“In an entertaining, easy-to-read style, Freeman details what has happened ever since communication moved beyond face-to-face conversation. . . . This book is a fascinating mixture of philosophy, psychology, history, sociology, electronics and economics.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“In prose both wise and entertaining, a book has arrived to awaken a nation of inveterate e-mail- checkers from their collective lunacy. . . . The Tyranny of E-mail is a funny read filled with anecdotes you’ll want to share with friends.”—The Kansas City Star
“A truly fascinating journey . . . [Freeman’s] book is informative, well-written and researched, and certainly a wake-up call telling us that our technological life blood is more than a little poisoned.”—Grand Rapids Press
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Miami Herald, December 22, 2009
...THE TYRANNY OF E-MAIL: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox. John Freeman. Scribner. 224 pages. $25. Do you check your e-mail from the downy comfort of bed? Admit it. You do. I ...
Business Traveller Asia, December 15, 2009
...consideration that are the hallmark of true agency.” This is the premise of a new book out, The Tyranny of E-mail, a Four-Thousand-Year Journey into Your Inbox by John Freeman who has conducted extensive psychological and social research ...
Seattle Times, October 18, 2009
...at 12:00 AM Comments (0) Print view Share Book review John Freeman's new book, "The Tyranny of E-mail" is the author/Granta editor's meditation on what the tsunami of daily e-mail is doing to our ability to think. Freeman discusses ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 17, 2009
...The Tyranny of E-Mail more photos The Tyranny of E-Mail By John Freeman. 224 pages. Scribner. $25 In his novel "Cell," Stephen King is at his horrific best in describing how ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 30, 2009
...people are plugged in to the mainframe. Amusingly, wistfully, 'Inherent Vice' reminds us it wasn't always so. John Freeman is acting editor of Granta and author of 'The Tyranny of E-mail,' forthcoming from Scribner ...
Las Vegas Weekly, August 27, 2009
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Kansas City Star, January 28, 2009
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Cleveland Live, January 25, 2009
...metaphor. Her voice is one Orwell would recognize. Freeman is the American editor of Granta magazine. To reach John Freeman: books@plaind.com ...
The Scotsman, January 17, 2009
...Bloomsbury, £12.99Review: John Freeman HE HAS been a roguish night crawler, a faithful chronicler of the preppy party class and their vodka and tonic-fuelled lurch through life, a wry-tongued gourmand and a gouged-eye ...
Cleveland Live, January 11, 2009
...can work by this light can do anything. Freeman is the American editor of Granta magazine. To reach John Freeman: books@plaind.com ...
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PublishersWeekly.com, December 9, 2008
...A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: ; John Freeman; How to Talk to Girls to Fox; DC Comics Fables To ABC; and Obamas Green Policies Help Promote Book Timothy Egan in a New York Times op-ed piece takes ...
