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New essay on befriending a pool hustler named Crackhead Rob is up on Granta online.
Essay on selling furniture to celebrities is on Salon.
Peter's op-ed on the Occupy Movement for the Seattle Times.
Essay on Peter's recent trip to Sri Lanka is available on The Atlantic.
NPR.ORG selected A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism for their books we like section!
The Los Angeles Review of Books' first interview.
The Daily Beast picked A Young Man's Guide as one of their three 2011 "Great Weekend Reads."
Interview in the Salt Lake Tribune. Also, in Knee Jerk Magazine, Culture Mob, and Seattlest.
A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism has been picked by the Kindle editors at Amazon as one of the Spring recommendations, specifically, one of five books from the larger selection that are "especially inspiring, challenging or entertaining."
Had a hoot on NPR's West Coast Live! on Saturday, April 17th. Also, in the world of audio, look for recent and/or upcoming interviews on KBOO in Portland, WritersCast, Avid Reader, and The Leonard Lopate Show in NYC.
Check out Peter's short essay about the origins of the novel on the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy Blog
Interview with Caleb Powell in The Millions
Interview with Raphaela Weissman in Bookslut and with Reese Okyong Kwon in Fringe
A wacky and fun interview with Nosy Girl
AYMGTLC is one of the "best of the month's reads" in the April edition of Town & Country. Also mentioned as an "anticipated" novel in the April issue of Interview Magazine.
AYMGTLC is the only novel featured in the New York Times Style Magazine's Spring Men's Fashion issue's Bookshelf on March 11, 2011.
- Read an op-ed by Peter in The Christian Science Monitor: "Before Republicans start budget-slashing, take a lesson from Bolivia"
- An excerpt appears in the January issue of City Arts Magazine. Also, read the interview on the City Arts website.
Reviews
See reader's reviews on Goodreads.
New Review by Chris Kraus in Los Angeles Review of Books: "Daringly allegorical and written with apt understatement, A Young Mans Guide to Late Capitalism appears as a Trojan horse within the realm of contemporary literary fiction. Mountford has the courage to depict a world in which personal lives arent really that personal."
St. Louis Country Library writes: "The novel is a latter-day Graham Greene adventure, where a young protagonist in a foreign land becomes deeply embroiled in financial (instead of Greene's political) espionage, and must make decisions that will affect the course of his own life as well as his host nation's. This novel won great reviews, but may have slipped under your radar on its release in May of 2011."
Kenyon Review: "What a miraculous thing Mountford has
done. Gabriel is right on both counts. And wrong. That polarity crackles
in the heart of this novel, which is neither afraid to feel deep
sympathy for its tragic protagonist nor hesitant to judge him harshly."
NPR.ORG: "Several things set Peter Mountford's impressive debut, A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism, apart from the few finance-driven novels that have emerged in the wake of the economic meltdown..." read more here.
Fiction Writers Review: "This is quite simply one of the smartest and most readable debuts Ive come across in years. Mountford is a writer who rolls up his sleeves and digs into the zeitgeist all the way up to his elbows. Hes fearless in his depiction of world leaders, global events, and the oft-ignored gray areas between morality and success."
Seattle Times writes: "Debut novels don't come much savvier, punchier, or more entertaining than [A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism...]
Minneapolis Star-Tribune writes: "Mountford's powerful novel avoids easy judgements as it explores how money can take over one's life."
The Rumpus: "In his powerfully-written, quick-paced, and timely debut, Mountford shines a hard light on todays frantic financial amphitheatera place where morality is secondary to making a dollar and large companies can sabotage entire countries."
The New Jersey Star Ledger writes: "In this dazzling debut novel, Mountford displays a gift for characterization and a sure-footed grasp of financial matters that enable him to guide a reader nimbly through the arcane vernacular of Wall Street."
Fiction Advocate: "Peter Mountfords debut novel speeds off, down the crowded streets of La Paz. If Graham Greene and Gordon Gekko collaborated on a South American travelogue, it would go something like this...It turns out 'international markets and their political underpinnings' can be fun to read about, after all."
Bookslut: "This is Mountfords triumph: he has created a commentary on contemporary economics that is as moving and genuine as it is biting and satirical...A Young Mans Guide to Late Capitalism will be remembered as a touchstone work of the Era of Twenty-First Century Economic Crises."