Hello everyone,
The funding process is one month old and stands at 32%. Not too shabby.
I've been meaning to leak some bits of the book to you--my intelligent and extremely good-looking supporters--as exclusive sneak-peaks. Here's the first.
This is the table of contents as it currently stands. It should give you an idea of the book's general shape if not its feel.
Introduction
In which we meet Houdini and see his art as metaphor
Part 1: The Trap
In which we study our predicament through the eyes of an Escapologist
Prologue to Part 1: the mechanisms of the trap
Chapter 1: Work
Chapter 2: Consumerism
Chapter 3: Bureaucracy
Chapter 4: Our stupid brains
Part 2: Freedom
In which we ask what we’re escaping into and examine the virtues of the good life
Prologue to Part 2: what does freedom look like?
Chapter 5: What do Escapologists do all day?
Chapter 6: The life of the author
Chapter 7: The Good Life
Part 3: Escape Routes
In which the tricks of escape are revealed with the help of three glamorous assistants
Prologue to Part 3: three glamorous assistants
Chapter 8: Preparation
Chapter 9: Escape Work
Chapter 10: Escape Consumerism
Chapter 11: Escape Bureaucracy
Chapter 12: Escape from our stupid brains
Chapter 13: Your Post-Escape Life
Afterword
In which we ask the simultaneously ethical and utopian question: what if everyone did this?
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That's it! Thank you again for your support. Tell your friends (and enemies, why not?) about the book if you think they'll take something from it, and we'll have an exciting new book in all of our hands before we know it.