Table of Contents

Pre-mail

Email
Compose
Subject
Attachment
Inbox
Send
Reply-All
Delete
Junk

Out of Office: After Email
Postscript: How to Write and Read an Email

Index

Promotional Information

To examine our emails is to examine our lives: our inboxes are anthropological goldmines, waiting to be plumbed and probed for the expansive cultural, ethical, behavioral lessons they hold.

About the Author

Randy Malamud is Regents’ Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author of ten books, including Reading Zoos (1998) and An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture (2012). He has written for HuffPost, Salon, Film Quarterly, Chicago Sun-Times, and the Los Angeles Times and has appeared on CNN, BBC, and NPR.

Reviews

This involving and innovative volume's aggregation of ephemera will no doubt delight the social historian ... The snappy prose and keen engagement help pull together the text into an engaging and successful snapshot of collective experience.
*Times Higher Education*

In this slyly subversive little book, part rhapsody, part diatribe, Randy Malamud can’t leave e-mail alone. His exuberant rants and riffs give us a new perspective on our infernal electronic inboxes. A fast, funny, compulsive read.
*Mikita Brottman, Professor of Humanistic Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art, USA, and author of An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere (2018) and The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison (2016)*