Existing

About the Book

Like a beachcomber searching for some lost article of value, Victor Chen has browsed the internet, surfed TV news channels, and whiled away hours in the public library. This volume brings together on paper—arranged chronologically and with an index—a variety of findings from the decade 2010-2021. They have been selected from out of his Facebook and Twitter platforms. Like his most recent previous volumes, they include a few items that might make a satisfactory newspaper column, if only a newspaper would print them. There are also small tidbits that might give to some newsmakers the pleasure of having been noticed. In the daily information wash of life, there can be stuff to occupy the mind.

About the Author

Chen’s previous books include memories of his childhood in New York and his education in the U.S. and Britain. His experience on the staff of The New Yorker in the 1970s may have been important, and he has puzzled critically over the history of New York and the world since the age of Franklin Roosevelt. He has also written short stories like “Useful Information,” parodies like “Legal Realism,” and poems like “Prosy Suspicions About a Poem Taught in College.”