Title: So bad it's actually pretty funny...
Product review: Mercilessly self-congratulatory, "Goodbye Gutenberg" takes a potentially interesting premise and proceeds to beat readers over the head with the author's self-proclaimed brilliance and prescience. Before you even crack the cover, you get: "How a Bronx Teacher Defied 500 Years of Tradition and Launched an Astonishing Renaissance." And yes, Kirschenbaum is writing about herself. (I wonder: Is it possible to give oneself the Nobel Prize?)Kirschenbaum seems to have never seen a copy of a graphically oriented magazine such as "Wired." What's conceptually bleeding-edge to her is daily reality to others. "Gutenberg" isn't new or even novel, let alone "astonishing."This isn't a book. It's a one-woman marketing campaign.
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