Cory Doctorow: Little Brother

Today, Cory Doctorow had a reading at Los Altos Library for his latest book, Little Brother. The crowd was small, being a midday reading of about 30 people in attendance, and both before and after the reading, Doctorow fielded some questions from the audience.

Doctorow on why Little Brother was set in San Francisco:

Cory Doctorow on Citizen Journalism and Mass Media, and how the Internet is a collaboration tool:

Doctorow also showed off the book he was currently readingfor research as he is currently novelizing his short story Anda's Game. The book is "Socialism Is Great!": A Worker's Memoir of the New China by Lijia Zhang, which is a memoir of a woman who worked at a factory building intercontinental ballistic missiles in China.

The passage read is the same passage that has been read before, and will also be the same reading he's doing tonight at Borderland Books in San Francisco. He mentioned that one of the reasons why he reading the same passage throughout this portion of the book tour was to improve his performance of the reading.

Doctorow, after the reading also showed off his Steampunk watch made by Haruo Suekichi (one of two in the world), and demonstrated the "catapult" feature. He also explained that prior to posting the link on boingboing, he purchased one of the watches.

After answering a few more questions, he started signing books. The line went quickly, and when I got up there, I mentioned that I had been up by Mission Dolores Park earlier in the day, grabbing some ice cream, and he had mentioned that he had had lunch just a few blocks away at Cafe Gratitude, a raw food restaurant.

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