Censorship now!!, paperback/ian f. svenonius

While putting a copy of this book on your nightstand would be a sign of good taste, who cares about good taste? Are you willing to be seen reading a book titled Censorship Now in public? If so, your skin might burn with funny glances from squares, scolds and looky-loos.

But on the inside, you ll feel your brain throbbing as it swells to accommodate some hilarious, absurd and radical new strategies on how to live in our ridiculous world.

--Washington Post Svenonius new book is Censorship Now, and the title alone shows just how provocative the author can be.

A collection of essays previously published by Vice, Jacobin, and others, it sets up numerous enemies--both real and straw--for Svenonius to knock down.

Its all couched in a style that s part anarchist tirade, part postmodern critique, and part punk-rock snottiness--yet its addictively ridiculous.

--NPR Censor it all.

Film, TV, music, politics, books, news, art--censor all of it.

That s the guiding principle of local radical punk Ian Svenonius latest essay collection, Censorship Now --Washington City Paper, Critics Pick Named a Favorite Book of 2015 by Jason Diamond at Vol.

1 Brooklyn Gonzo ecstasy for those who have come to know Svenoniuss self-aware political meditations.

And though the essays Svenonius writes are not themselves unclear, the process of talking about what hes written involves discussions that some might find uncomfortable.

His books make more sense the more you dissect them.

So keep them in your back pocket and read them, one word at a time.

--Los Angeles Review of Books A new collection of essays by everyones favorite supercilious rock theorist.

Svenonius has always been the smartest kid in the room.

In print, Svenonius is like that curmudgeonly pal that you adore because, even while his insight quivers between humor, paranoia, and antisocial ire, he never dispels your fascination in how he gets there.

--SF Weekly Ian Svenonius is best known as the frontman of bands like the Make-Up and Nation of Ulysses, but hes also a brilliant cultural critic with a talent for coming up with the hottest takes youll ever read.

In this collection, Svenonius makes compelling arguments in favor of censorship and hoarding books and records, amid polemics against Apple and Ikea, the yuppification of indie rock, and the shaving of pubic hair.

--Buzzfeed The essays in Censorship Now are equally packed with modest proposals and mock-revolutionary rhetoric, but there are grains of truth in pieces like The Historic Role Of Sugar In Empire Building and Heathers Revisited: The Nerds Fight For Niceness--theyre just buried somewhere between tongue and cheek.

--The A.

Club Censorship Now simultaneously deals in the heated rhetoric of insurgent calls to action, the seductive broad strokes of propaganda, and the clever winking of surrealist humor.

Often when Im really convinced Svenonius has gone off a paranoid deep end, the next sentence hits back with knowingly-hilarious exaggeration or profoundly spot-on analysis, realigning my perspective and making me wonder again.

Its fitting that a book whose intentions are ambiguous begins with a call to censor art and ends by letting art do the talking.

--Pitchfork Ian F.

Svenoniuss new collection of sixteen essays and stories, entitled Censorship Now, is reorganizing peoples ideas about censorship, Ikea, documentary filmmaking, the Berlin Wall, the film Heathers, the twist, the frug, the mashed potato, shaving ones body, Apple, Inc.

, Nordic functionalism, the supposed benevolence of the Wikipedia, hoarding, college rock, the origins of the Internet, and more.

Its an underground smash which has been met with a horrified gasp in all respectable quarters and gog-eyed enthusiasm in artist garrets the world over.