Five top books from the 1980s

Wayne Koestenbaum’s 2013 book, My 1980s and Other Essays, explores, among other things, the age of Ronald Reagan and MTV. One of his five favorite books from the decade, as shared at the Daily Beast:
The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989) by Avital Ronell

The smartest book ever written about the telephone. The smartest book ever written about the impossibility of