The New York Times Says Portland Author “Manages to Capture Something Essential About Silicon Valley”

A review finds the title of Corey Pein's new book, "Live Work Work Work Die," to be right on the money.

Corey Pein
By Nigel Jaquiss

This weekend, Portland author Corey Pein got for his first book what most authors can only dream of—a full-page assessment in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Pein, a former reporter at WW, spent the past few years trying to understand the culture in the epicenter of high tech. His new book Live Work Work Work Die chronicles what he found.

Times reviewer Nikil Saval says Pein zoomed past the glowing profiles of tech-bro billionaires that the public gets fed to focus on the some unpleasant truths.

"Live Work Work Work Die manages to capture something essential about Silicon Valley that has eluded other authors," Saval writes. "This is because Pein starts from the grimy underbelly of tech and never makes it out, which accurately reflects the experience of many tech workers."

Pein will read from Live Work Work Work Die at Powell's City of Books at 1005 W. Burnside on Friday, June 8 at 7:30 pm.

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