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Review "The Learners is witty and well observed as an office comedy, as a meditation on art, and as a story of self-discovery...the book is packed with sharp insights...Kidd ultimately is a brilliant, self-aware designer and a clever writer."-- "New York Times Book Review ""[A] major writing talent...[Chip Kidd is] an author to watch."-- "USA Today ""Arresting and hip...captivating."-- "Christian Science Monitor ""Ingenious...The Learners seduces the reader through a deceptive manipulation of form and content: It's a matryoshka, or stacking doll, that hides a startling, dark content. By the time we get to the end of the first of its three parts, we are dropped into a creepy, disturbing, sociopolitical satire."-- "Philadelphia Inquirer""Kidd has held up an engrossing, distorting mirror to a time when marketplace language we all now speak was only just being coined."-- "Calgary Herald (Alberta) ""Kidd shares his deep knowledge of graphic design with his readers in inventive and generally delightful ways...His wit, astute observation, and compassion make The Learners that rarest of offerings--[an] immensely enjoyable novel."-- "Boston Globe""Narrator Bronson Pinchot...offers a fresh perspective and a perfectly played performance that captures the essence of Kidd's work. Pinchot assumes the personality of Happy with such vigor that he seems the only possible choice to narrate the novel...A witty story told by an even wittier narrator is a perfect combination."-- "AudioFile""Required reading."-- "New York Post""Snappy...Kidd invents a banter-filled workplace worthy of Howard Hawks, gleefully tweaks the old-guard panic of the Mad Men-era ad world, and even throws in a few typographic bells and whistles. A-."-- "Entertainment Weekly ""Whimsical...keen-edged and original."-- "Kirkus Reviews""Wild and winning, funny and moving."-- "San Francisco Chronicle"Pinchot's fully voiced performance is electrifying. He moves easily between the comic and the somber elements in the