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 from conception, A Year on Facebook is a one-of-a-kind literary experience that raises the bar for the idealist in us all. As one commentator summed up, I wonder if you know, Peter, how many times you make me laugh out loud with your status updates. Guess it doesn’t matter. Just keep me laughing, please. :)