{"id":43,"date":"2019-01-24T18:25:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T18:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshwagner.xyz\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2019-12-10T18:11:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:11:21","slug":"smashing-laptops","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joshwagner.xyz\/?page_id=43","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Beginning as a memoir of Josh’s on-and-off love affair with his hometown, Smashing Laptops<\/a><\/em> turns into a fictionalized account of his dear friend’s virgin pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cover by Alyssa English<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Wagner’s book is beautifully written, and true, and filled with serious<\/em>
tenderness…You can see the words of certain passages scrawled<\/em>
in a notebook before they’ve been transcribed. It’s the sort of <\/em>
writing that can only come from experience, given to us<\/em> raw and
unfiltered with a charm that requires only a little prodding to fall for.<\/em>
\u2014Molly Laich, MISSOULA INDEPENDENT <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world\u2019s first pregnant virgin in over 2000 years lives in Missoula, Montana. Her nomadic best friend is wallowing in the fallout of a disastrous Las Vegas love affair when she asks him to come back home for the miraculous birth. Now he has no choice but go back to the one town he can’t ever seem to stay away from. Smashing Laptops is a romance with wanderlust among a community of guerrilla artists, gnostic magicians, and fly-fishing fanatics peering over the edge of the millennium, as rotary phones and telephone poles slowly disintegrate into the 21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n