At a party at the publisher’s home in the Presidio yesterday, the author listens pensively as the publisher makes some introductory remarks.
Readers follow along as the author reads out loud.
After signing a few copies, the author pauses, sighs in relief.
A Total Junker begins with a selfie and concludes with an aye. The chronology is disjunct. Each slice demands its own format.
1 Half Junk (age 71-72)
a year on Facebook
2 An Old Junker (age 66-70)
blog novel
3 Clunker Junker (age 30)
protometamemoir
4 The Junkman Cometh (age 5-10)
family saga—scrapbook of a time, a place
5 Newsjunkie (age 24-28)
journalism
6 The Junkpile (age 70, 38, 35, 34, 27, 18, 8)
fiction
7 Junker’s Blues (age 31)
a summer’s journal
8 Dear Howard (age 41-46)
epistolary novel
9 Junkets (age 72, 23, 33, 71)
photoessay
10 Yo Junker (age 73)
travelogue
11 Junker’s I (age 74)
typographic tale
