{"product_id":"reboot-isbn-9780553387629","title":"Reboot","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture, following a washed-up actor on his quest to revive the cult TV show that catapulted him to teenage fame\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"A performance full of wit and rigor\"—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Crader is a has-been. A former child actor from the hit teen drama \u003ci\u003eRev Beach\u003c\/i\u003e, he now rotates between his new roles as deadbeat dad, recovering alcoholic, and occasional videogame voice actor. But when David is summoned to Los Angeles by Grace, his ex-wife and former co-star, he suddenly sees an opportunity for a reboot—not just of the show that made him famous, but also of his listless existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHollywood, the Internet, and a fractured nation have other plans, however, and David soon drinks himself to a realization: This seemingly innocuous revival of an old \u003ci\u003eBuffy\u003c\/i\u003e rip-off could be the spark that sets ablaze a nation gripped by far-right conspiracy, climate catastrophe, and mass violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReboot \u003c\/i\u003eis a madcap speculative comedy for our era of glass-eyed doom-scrolling and Millennial nostalgia—and yet it’s still full of heart. It’s a tale of former teen heartthrobs, striving parents, internet edgelords, and fish-faced cryptids, for anyone who has looked back on their life and wanted—even if but for a moment—to hit “reset.”“[Taylor’s] book is, in part, a performance of culture, a mirror of America complete with its own highly imagined myths . . . . It’s a performance of wit and rigor freed of the familiar polarizing semantics, making legible . . . just how much conspiracy theory and pop culture have fused. Not just QAnon and Russiagate, but Kate Middleton and Birds Aren’t Real.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Taylor also demonstrates the broader public costs of living inside narratives, especially the most polluted ones — antisemitism, QAnon, lizard people. . . . Though ‘funnier than Don DeLillo’ may seem like faint praise, \u003ci\u003eReboot\u003c\/i\u003e wrings brilliant laughs from the absurdity of David’s predicament, and the way Hollywood and internet language can seem like foreign tongues, something human-adjacent but not quite human . . . . What are we missing while we marinate in this nonsense? That’s Taylor’s sharpest joke.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Justin Taylor has a knack for depicting our modern moment with a wisdom that often only comes from hindsight....David's situation asks big questions about who we are as a culture, what we value, and the things that bring us together and tear us apart. You know, like teen soaps.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Town and Country Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReboot\u003c\/i\u003e is a hilarious and thoughtful romp through our culture of endless rebooting—with detours into toxic online fandom, climate change, conspiracy theories, and more...\" \u003cb\u003e—Lincoln Michel, author of\u003ci\u003e The Body Scout\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For all the talk of an Other America—that underground country whose president is Trump and whose capital is Florida—we have precious few novels of its condition, and none as powerful, passionate, whacked-out, and pathic as Justin Taylor’s Reboot.”\u003cb\u003e —Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Netanyahus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A hilarious portrait of how our culture’s insistence on making everything a reference to something else has destabilized reality and our ability to make meaning.”\u003cb\u003e —Isaac Butler, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Method\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A laugh-out-loud, bingeable romp, that rare, bang-up novel as big-hearted as it is ambitious, written by a writer at the height of his wild gifts.”\u003cb\u003e—Tracy O’Neill, author of\u003ci\u003e Quotients\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Justin Taylor is cursed with equal portions of modesty and genius. What inevitably results is a multilayered masterpiece about a paradox.” \u003cb\u003e—Nell Zink, author of \u003ci\u003eAvalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReboot\u003c\/i\u003e is the perfect 21st century novel\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eecstatically funny and heartbreaking.” \u003cb\u003e—Daniel Hornsby, author of \u003ci\u003eSucker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eVia Negativa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Taylor’s fluency, intellectual nimbleness, and playful sense of humor call to mind the work of David Foster Wallace; the reader can easily imagine David Crader’s video game adaptation of Infinite Jest. An affecting character study and excoriating indictment of the way we live now.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Justin Taylor’s apocalyptic Reboot pulls off a feat few novels of our online present manage: reading it actually feels like tapping into the internet’s best celeb gossip, fiercest fandom outrages, and wildest conspiratorial rabbit holes.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An introspective literary look at contemporary entertainment, families, culture, and the never-ending search for connection.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBooklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJUSTIN TAYLOR\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Gospel of Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e, the story collections \u003ci\u003eEverything Here Is the Best Thing Ever\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFlings\u003c\/i\u003e; and the memoir \u003ci\u003eRiding with the Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e, His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a contributing writer to \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World \u003c\/i\u003eand the director of the Sewanee School of Letters. He lives in Portland, Oregon.","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305269154021,"sku":"NP9780553387629","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780553387629.jpg?v=1767735502","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/reboot-isbn-9780553387629","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}