Playa Bound...

This will likely be my last post here til after Burning Man, which I am, unsurprisingly I hope, heading off to. I plan to do a public reading of the ENTIRE book from start to finish...somewhere, somewhen, out there. If I can get a portable P.A., at the foot of the man. If not, maybe at the stage in my camp of Farceland within the Infinite Oasis, at 4:30 and Earth, if my fellow campmates can tolerate having the stage monopolized for the 8 or so hours it will likely take. I will do more sane readings of snippets of it here and there, as time and stage permit.

By the way, my rush up the Amazon rankings got as high as 551 yesterday.

And the SF Weekly do a full-on review of the book, by Lessley Anderson. An excerpt:

How do you convey what's powerful and meaningful about an event that's made up of thousands of people's highly personal, trippy experiences? Brian Doherty's book This Is Burning Man provides both a solution to this problem and arguably the best prose ever written about the 18-year-old festival. In much the same way that Tom Wolfe did in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Doherty tells the story of a subculture through an ensemble cast of eccentrics and their larger-than-life adventures.
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A seven-year veteran of Burning Man and senior editor at Reason magazine, Doherty is close enough to his subjects to really understand them, but journalist enough to avoid starry-eyed sycophantism.....By the end of the book we've grown to care enough about the people involved to worry and dream along with them about what the future holds for Burning Man.