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Patrick McGinty

Patrick McGinty lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the English Department at Slippery Rock University. His debut novel about the driverless car sector, Test Drive, will be published by Propeller Books in May 2022.

Gold coins with the bitcoin symbol are floating out of a book.

Everywhere in Blockchains

When the global investment bank Bear Stearns went broke in March of 2008, I was a college senior on spring break in Florida. My two friends and I had one simple rule—free housing, no matter what—which is how Kelly and I wound up eating a burnt scramble one morning while our ...
A nervous, anthropomorphic car measures how tall it is in front of a mirror. It holds a book titled, “Where’s My Driver? Self Help For The Autonomous.”

Driving into the Wreck

In the past half decade, a small publishing miracle has taken place: many books about driverless cars are available for purchase, whereas driverless cars are not. For what feels like the first time in the twenty-first century, prose has outrun product. Book-length analysis has ...