“My Own Devices: Airport Version” by Corey Frost

My Own Devices: Airport Version is a series of stories in which the main characters, all of whom are named Corey Frost, are left to their own devices in Japan, Brazil, Sumatra, St. Petersburg, Macau, Montreal, New York, and elsewhere. The devices include various phones, cameras, tiny cars and mini-disc recorders, as well as a backpack full of witty, occasionally satirical literary gimmicks. These are playful post-modern tales of travel grounded in the art of the short story.

Frost has proven himself a writer of many talents and My Own Devices was the book which established his reputation. This new expanded edition is perfect for reading on an airplane, train, bus, or ferry. It includes new stories from Lesotho, Turkey, and Angkor Wat, as well as new postcard projects, timelines and ephemera.

“Frost is a writer to watch, both for his refined sense of story development and for the sheer oddness of his literary imagination…. Frost is an analytical writer somewhat in the way Beckett or Gogol were, minutely dissecting everyday occurrences until they take on a far more surreal and expansive quality.”
- Montreal Review of Books

“Part Dave Eggers, part Chris Ware, and eight parts Corey Frost, it’s as playful as building a snowman, and not as wet.”
- Montreal Mirror

Corey Frost has toured his multi-media performances on the Perpetual Motion Roadshow in Canada and the US, and in Europe and Australasia. Most recently his writing has appeared in The Walrus and Matrix. His book of performance pieces is The Worthwhile Flux. Currently he is pursuing a PhD and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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