This is a tell-all of Mr. Martinez's experience in venture capital and later at Facebook, filled with insights about Silicon Valley — what he calls "the tech whorehouse" — mixed with score-settling anecdotes that will occasionally make you laugh out loud.
Poetry lovers are invited to listen to "excellent, original literature" (upcoming participants include Jennifer Michael Hecht and Valzhyna Mort) read aloud in the comfort of a fabricated whorehouse, complete with a full bar, gambling, music, and tarot cards.
Swiftly she takes Maqroll to bed, spruces him up, and appoints him her partner in an inspired venture, a whorehouse staffed with women dressed in the uniforms of airline stewardesses, thus catering to the fantasies of international travellers.
In this McCarthy-era allegory, Dwan lays bare the town's social structure, linking courthouse and whorehouse and, with a climactic battle in the telegraph office, locates its very survival in the rise of modern communications.
The second image, at the center of the book, also involves a museum: it is Baudelaire's famous dream, in which he explores a vast and labyrinthine exhibition hall that is simultaneously a whorehouse, filled with a mixture of great art and seedy pornography.
