Paul La Farge: Luminous Airplanes

42 Minutes 309: Paul La Farge - Luminous Airplanes - 04.10.2018 On the day before the paperback edition of The Night Ocean arrives, we meet again with Paul La Farge to speak about his 2011 work, Luminous Airplanes, an expansive, hugely imaginative, and very funny novel about history, love, memory, family, flying machines, dance music, and the end of the world. Topics Include: 90s, San Francisco, Infinite Jest, Internet, Digital Media, Immersive Text, Truth, Buildungsroman, Blogs, History, The New, Curmudgeon, Video Games, Research, Interactive Fictions, Millerites, Apocalypse, Y2K, 911, Technological Change, Narrative. lumionousairplanes.com