The New Manifesto

<p>Arthur B. Johnson had always heard that a first novel is the easiest one to write. If that's true <em>THE NEW MANIFESTO</em> may well be his last. In fact assuming you're brave enough to open these pages he'll be happy to tell you why.</p><p> </p><p>After all <em>The New Manifesto</em> is a book about writing <em>The New Manifesto</em>. Metafiction as it were. But it is also a made-up memoir a future history a dream journal and an interactive adventure story. No matter how many tricks he tried whatever our author wrote always ended up becoming <em>The New Manifesto</em>. Certain themes and images are inescapable it seems. Writers may view themselves as foxes but all too often they turn out to be hedgehogs.</p><p> </p><p>At times riotous at times contemplative <em>The New Manifesto</em> delights in mocking its own author as he tries in vain to escape his own voice. Whether you ultimately come to see voice as a boon or hindrance as worthy of celebration or worthy of revilement <em>The New Manifesto</em> makes clear that voice is always and inevitably present.</p>