NYC: For the Win tour-stops

Hey, New York! I'm in town for the next-to-last stop of my book-tour for my new YA novel For the Win, and I'll be at:

* Books of Wonder, May 26, 6-8PM
* powerhouse Books, May 27, 7:30PM
* McNally Jackson, May 28, 7PM

The tour ends on June 4 in Toronto, with a stop at the Merril Collection -- can't wait to see you! (full schedule)

Reminder: There are plenty of libraries, schools, halfway houses and shelters hoping you'll donate a book to them.

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Anonymous

cory doctorow ftw…….
musicman

Couldn’t stop reading it over the weekend. Interrupted a booty call. Do it ppl. Give it to your nephews and nieces.
preterite

Love the book, but I’ve got to ask: why are people waggling their chins in what seems like just about every paragraph?

I understand that it’s in part a way to illustrate how other cultures have different gestural habits that seem as natural and commonplace as, say, grinning does to Westerners — but, still, grinning isn’t the only thing we do: frowning, scowling, grimacing, head-cocking, lip-tightening, eyebrow-arching, et cetera — and in FTW, there ain’t nothin but a whole lotta chin-waggling going on.

And so what this does is actually reinforce what Edward Said might have described as the orientalist tendency that the pervasive use of the descriptor seems intended to counter, singling out chin-waggling as identifiably Eastern and Other. (See Toni Morrison’s “Playing in the Darklk” for some useful parallels.) I’d say a broader and more diverse non-Western gestural vernacular is in order. ;-)
politeruin

I didn’t understand this chin-wagging confusion from someone in one of cory’s book tour casts because to me chin-wagging has always been used to describe a conversation between people. An excessively chatty conversation maybe. Perhaps that’s just a uk thing, i had no idea about this far eastern variation.
preterite

Cory overuses “waggling” and some variants (not “wagging,” which does typically describe talk) as an indicator of thought/ambivalence: “Yasmin rocked her chin from side to side,” “‘OK,’ he said, waggling his chin,” “He waggled his chin, thinking,” et cetera.
CheshireKitty

3:35 am??
GO TO BED! :P
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