As part of BOMB Maqazine's Fiction For Driving series, writer Paul La Farge reads an excerpt from his novel Luminous Airplanes. You can find a conversation between La Farge and fellow novelist Peter Orner in the Winter 2012 issue of BOMB Magazine.

The author has written this about the book: "After many false starts and dead ends, Luminous Airplanes became both a book and a hypertext. The book tells the story of our young man, now a computer programmer, and the house of relics and trash which he sorts through in the fall of 2000. It also concerns Yesim Regenzeit, a Turkish-American woman whom the narrator loved as a child, and whom he’s inclined to love again as an adult—a dangerous confusion of present and past. The book speaks about the wild technological optimism of the 1990s in San Francisco, and of Swan, a homeless man who is one of the Internet boom’s most adamant opponents."

The immersive text is online at www.luminousairplanes.com. Take a look.

Paul La Farge is the author of two novels: The Artist of the Missing and Haussmann, or the Distinction, which was a New York Times Notable Book for 2001. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, and in 2005 he won the Bard Ficton Prize. His third book, The Facts of Winter, was published by McSweeney’s Books in 2005.

As part of BOMB Maqazine's Fiction For Driving series, writer Paul La Farge reads and excerpt from his novel Luminous Airplanes. You can find a conversation between La Farge and fellow novelist Peter Orner in the Winter 2012 issue