Economists are using automated information-retrieval routines, or "bots," to scrape bits of novel information about economic decisions from the internet.
A reviewer of The Trades website called it "an entertaining read that manages to serve several purposes in one concise novel" and found the characters "unusual yet likable", but felt that "the disappointing bit of this novel is that the solutions always arrive through a series of disconnected events that just lead the kids to think in certain ways".
There's a bit of road novel as well, when, enlightened as to the actual state of his chromosomes, Cal hitchhikes to -- where else? -- San Francisco.
I started working on the stories and the novel at almost the same time: I would finish a section of "What Belongs to You" and then, while I figured out the next bit of the novel, I would work on a story.
In an era where users are used to perfecting the moments that they share with other through filters (a la Instagram) or happily seeing those moments slip into the ether (via Snapchat), the idea of spontaneous, unvarnished moments that are with you forever seems a bit of a novel concept.
You never know when you'll run across a reference source, be inspired, or, more importantly, be able to grab a few extra moments to work on a bit of your novel.
In this gaudy, blingy, frenzied version that puts the roaring in Roaring Twenties, gin bottles, bits of the novel's text and Gatsby's passel of pastel shirts come flying off the screen right at you.
I wrote a bit of a horror novel on the Freewrite just to try it out and I found the lack of editing features quite freeing.
For me, the start of the year is a time to remove old PC files, clear out the e-mail in-box, and think a bit about the kinds of novel products and ideas that the new year might bring, though it might be more accurate to consider this a list of the kinds of gadgets I'd like to buy next year.
His son Brent Bushnell is also an entrepreneur, running a company called Two Bit Circus, a purveyor of novel out-of-home entertainment.
