Hologram Boyfriends: Sex, Love, and Overconnection
About this audiobook
Comedian, monologist, and storyteller Mike Albo takes listeners along on his quest for love in the digital age in this insightful, funny audio original. This program is read by the author.
Told through a series of fast-paced, entertaining vignettes narrated by the author himself, Albo likens his search for fulfillment to shopping for the perfect boneless chicken breast, revealing a world where emotions can be as commodified as consumer products. His observations, both hilarious and profound, echo the insightful wit of David Sedaris, making us laugh while prompting reflection on our shared human experiences.
In Hologram Boyfriends, Albo humorously dissects the intertwining of emotional and sexual desire with the insatiable consumption of social media and apps. From the time he asked a psychic if he would ever find love, and she responded: “Well, I don’t see you alone...forever,” to an early 2000s gig where he tried to convince a major media company that using the term “GayStreaming” was probably not a good idea, Hologram Boyfriends depicts the (lightly fictionalized) emotional roller coaster of the author’s career and romantic love life—and just how, in the end, he has become more tenaciously optimistic than ever.
"Sometimes it’s just not good enough to be fabulous. Mike Albo deserves everything and more. If you can’t figure that out, then you’ll never get to know Mike. In Hologram Boyfriends, he puts it all on the line, so get with the program!” —Sandra Bernhard, actor, comedian, and host of the Sandyland podcast on Sirius XM’s Radio Andy
“A masterpiece of both open-hearted humor and acid cultural criticism. It’s Sedaris, it’s Solnit, it’s better. Hologram Boyfriends also has healing powers: Mike Albo’s stories cleanse the bloodstream of the psychic microplastics we absorb through dating apps and online desire markets. Listen and listen again—it feels so good to be free.” —Virginia Heffernan, American journalist, cultural critic, and author of Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
An audio original from Macmillan Audio.
About the author
Mike Albo has performed multiple solo and group comedy shows across the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe, and is also a part of the long-running comedy trio Unitard and the legendary (in their own minds) dance collective The Dazzle Dancers. He has written for The New Yorker, New York Magazine, GQ, Departures, Town & Country, W Magazine, TED, Elle Decor, Southern Living, The New York Times, and other magazines and websites.
Mike is the author of three novels: Hornito, considered one of the 50 Essential LGBT Works of Fiction by Flavorwire; the cult classic The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life (written with Virginia Heffernan); and Another Dimension of Us. His other works include The Junket and Spermhood: Diary of a Donor.
