No Wave

“No Wave” is a multi-layered debut novel by Alexander Starostin, an artist, journalist, and founder of Theodor Bastard group. The book is based on the realities of the show business and magazine industry of the 2000s; it contains recognizable characters, personal dramas, and searching for oneself in creativity, love, and the blurred standards of the media space where money, ambition, deception, and sheer luck swirl together. Star names and a nameless main hero, a trendy label against open networks, hysteria against meditation, aggression against truth, loyalty against boldness—this is “No Wave.”