she's 23, adorable, and a 34-year-old russian american with a huge bald spot. i don't know where i come up with these things. >> brown: you write the story through diary entries, and e-mails and text messages and all the danger that entails. why that way gilove listening to language. i love to hear it fileted and chopped up and destroyed. and i do teach at columbia a place of very smart people, but i love to hear the new acronyms coming out. so in the book i had to invent a whole new set of acronyms, like i tibto ov, i think i am about to openly vomit. >> brown: what is it then? you're not coming out against the way people talk or communicate, but you are certainly having a lot of fun with it. is that satire? what is that? >> i am having a lot of fun with it, maybe too much fun with it. i think what worries me, and i think the main preoccupation of the book is what happens when people stop reading? what happens when the long-torm text goes out of business and all we have is tiny bit of information being thrown at our retinas. this is the problem i see. nobody w