Adam Joshua Engel

root (or "/") begins with a mock tech manual replete with ridiculous acronyms regarding the Information Systems Integration Structure (ISIS) operating system: proceeds to a flurry of prose-cartoons: and concludes with the doomed romance of Blood and Night: two tragic-comic ghosts in the Machine.

Political satire in the form of biting and brilliant essays that appeared on the nation's most significant and influential web sites between the years, mainly, of 2002 and 2005.

Adam Engel has been writing for many years. In 2010, he published his unparalleled collection of essays, written during the early years of the Bush/Cheney "administration," I HOPE MY CORPSE GIVES YOU THE PLAGUE: MY LIFE IN THE BUSH ERA OF GHOSTS. The year before that, he published his linguistically...

For the Adman, a former copywriter for The Ad Agency, there’s no way out but “in.” He becomes an “indoor landscaper” or “horticultural technician,” for a company called “Topiary Techniques.” He tends the potted flora of The City’s Corporations in order to “get back to the land.” He keeps the gr...