‘Get off your phone and examine Jess Kimball Leslie’s funny book!’

Andy Cohen, web host of Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live

I LOVE MY Pc BECAUSE MY Close friends LIVE IN IT is a hilarious memoir of developing up in the early days of the web and celebrating technology’s function inside our lives.

Coming of age in suburban Connecticut in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Jess Kimball Leslie appeared towards the nascent Internet to find the tribes she couldn’t find IRL: fellow Bette Midler enthusiasts; women who seemed impossibly sure of their sexuality; interns trudging through similarly soul-crushing media jobs. Through very easily comedic storytelling and talks about tech through the ages (with photos!), Jess goes on a journey through the amusing moments that technology and the Internet changed her existence.

From accounts of the lawless chat rooms of early AOL to the perpetual senior high school reunions that are modern-day Facebook and Instagram, Jess’s essays color an obvious picture: That each of us has a much more twisted, meaningful, emotional relationship with the web globe than we realize or let on.