A Year on Facebook

"A Year on Facebook" by Peter Carlaftes (184 pages, Three Rooms Press, 2010) is a comical trajectory through the chronological events of the past year via daily updates from the insightful and irreverent pontiff of pun: Peter Carlaftes. Call it Groucho Marx meets Kurt Vonnegut and they become BFFs in this irreverent, hilarious book. In this day of the tell-all journal, Carlaftes’s book, exposing the foibles of our seemingly civilized sensibility, reveals both how — and like — it is. Iconic ...