	Fiction NonFiction Poetry Film Art MEB Authors Press Events Distribution Contacts	FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MOBILITY LOUNGE by David Lincoln Pub Date: January 15, 2005 Fiction ISBN 0-9720662-5-X 256 pages $13.00 Distributed to the trade by Biblio Distribution Published by Spuyten Duyvil Contact: reviews@spuytenduyvil.net THE GLOBAL SELF Mobility Lounge is a savvy and far reaching first novel that explores the territory of globalization with all its chimeras of disconnection. Told by an invisible narrator in the near past, the late 1990s when technology was exploding, this funny and sad book explores one of the hidden assumptions of the Information Age – that one place is really the same as any other. What we are enticed to see here is no less than a new kind of individual, the global self. This charming and authentically written novel traces the web of relationships that results when an aspiring computer animator uses a legal loophole to stop being evicted from his low rent apartment. The green card marriage he so easily embarks on gets confused when the line between the virtual situation and the actual blurs, and he starts to have feelings for the stranger who is his wife. As the misconceptions swell, the circle of the story widens, and a growing cast of characters gets caught up in the realities of their virtual fiction. How, with all their shifting alliances, can any of them cope with the difference between the data and the actual facts? Spuyten Duyvil is proud to present this madcap performance by first time novelist David Lincoln. An adventurer who has staked out in real life many of the paths that he writes about here, Mr. Lincoln pursues the comedy and the squalor that can result when world cultures collide in relationships that could go literally anywhere. DAVID LINCOLN was born in Indiana, and raised by expatriates in Germany and England before returning to Colorado for college. He studied Creative Writing with Ed Dorn, who later published him in the literary gazette Rolling Stock. After living in the Himalayas for a few years, David moved to San Francisco and joined in the burgeoning spoken word movement in the late 80s, and began publishing in small publications. He later published two chapbooks of poetry (The Interloper and By The Way), short fiction in the Northwest Literary Review, and wrote travel writing for the San Francisco Chronicle. After acquiring a Masters degree in Writing from San Francisco State University, he toured the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a group which received a 4-star review from the Scotsman. He has been awarded scholarships for The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on multiple consecutive years, and his first novel, Mobility Lounge, is just out from Spuyten Duyvil. Currently he is at work on another novel. Promotion planned – seven city tour – New York, Washington DC, Boston, Madison, Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Official book web site – http://moblounge.info Note – any quotes should be verified against the final text . Four star review for David Lincoln's work at the 1996 Edinburgh Fringe Festival - "To the eager faithful, sitting on little black cushions on the floor of the South Bridge Resource Centre Studio, comes a new howl from poetic America... David Lincoln is the bard... Lincoln goes in for figures of speech. "Am I the wheel, or the prayer, spinning?" he asks. His delivery is mild and kindly, but he is evoking a world out of control... The United States Tourist Board won't like this show, but the audience did." The Scotsman, August 23, 1996, Friday # # #

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MOBILITY LOUNGE by David Lincoln
Pub Date: January 15, 2005 Fiction
ISBN 0-9720662-5-X
256 pages $13.00
Distributed to the trade by Biblio Distribution
Published by Spuyten Duyvil
Contact: reviews@spuytenduyvil.net

THE GLOBAL SELF

Mobility Lounge is a savvy and far reaching first novel that explores the territory of globalization
with all its chimeras of disconnection. Told by an invisible narrator in the near past, the late 1990s
when technology was exploding, this funny and sad book explores one of the hidden assumptions
of the Information Age – that one place is really the same as any other. What we are enticed to
see here is no less than a new kind of individual, the global self.

This charming and authentically written novel traces the web of relationships that results when
an aspiring computer animator uses a legal loophole to stop being evicted from his low rent
apartment. The green card marriage he so easily embarks on gets confused when the line between
the virtual situation and the actual blurs, and he starts to have feelings for the stranger who is his
wife. As the misconceptions swell, the circle of the story widens, and a growing cast of characters
gets caught up in the realities of their virtual fiction. How, with all their shifting alliances, can any of
them cope with the difference between the data and the actual facts?

Spuyten Duyvil is proud to present this madcap performance by first time novelist David Lincoln. An
adventurer who has staked out in real life many of the paths that he writes about here, Mr. Lincoln
pursues the comedy and the squalor that can result when world cultures collide in relationships that
could go literally anywhere.

DAVID LINCOLN was born in Indiana, and raised by expatriates in Germany and England before returning
to Colorado for college. He studied Creative Writing with Ed Dorn, who later published him in the
literary gazette Rolling Stock. After living in the Himalayas for a few years, David moved to San
Francisco and joined in the burgeoning spoken word movement in the late 80s, and began publishing in
small publications. He later published two chapbooks of poetry (The Interloper and By The Way), short
fiction in the Northwest Literary Review, and wrote travel writing for the San Francisco Chronicle.
After acquiring a Masters degree in Writing from San Francisco State University, he toured the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival with a group which received a 4-star review from the Scotsman. He has been awarded
scholarships for The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on multiple consecutive years, and his first
novel, Mobility Lounge, is just out from Spuyten Duyvil. Currently he is at work on another novel.

Promotion planned – seven city tour – New York, Washington DC, Boston, Madison, Seattle,
Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Official book web site – http://moblounge.info

Note – any quotes should be verified against the final text .

Four star review for David Lincoln's work at the 1996 Edinburgh Fringe Festival -

"To the eager faithful, sitting on little black cushions on the floor of the South Bridge Resource
Centre Studio, comes a new howl from poetic America... David Lincoln is the bard... Lincoln
goes in for figures of speech. "Am I the wheel, or the prayer, spinning?" he asks. His delivery
is mild and kindly, but he is evoking a world out of control... The United States Tourist Board
won't like this show, but the audience did."

The Scotsman, August 23, 1996, Friday

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