I've got the Auge

I get to review a range of books for Tribune magazine - and usually you can tell what's coming before you open the first page.
Recent additions to my bookshelf have been I'm With The Brand (about, er, brands. In America this had a different, crapper, title), Secrets & Lies (about the CIA and mind control), the Post-American World (about how the American empire might renew itself) and A Billion Lives (by the former UN honcho Jan Egeland).
Good, snappy titles. All bar one had good research and an original story to tell. (Secrets & Lies was very disappointing).
Now I'm now waiting for a review copy of a new edition of Non-places: An Introduction to Supermodernity by Marc Auge.
An introduction to what?
Well I picked it out of the catalogue because of a summary by author Patrick Wight who wrote the quite marvellous The Village That Died for England.
Wrights says of Non-places:

“Shopping malls, motorways, airport lounges — we are all familiar with these curious spaces which are both everywhere and nowhere. But only now do we have a coherent analysis of their far-reaching effects on public and private experience. Marc Augé has become their anthropologist, and has written a timely and original book."

Sounds great. A little Iain Sinclair and a little Guy Debord and some anthropology.
But get yourselves a snappy title folks. I'm a child of the TV generation and if I can't graffiti it onto a bridge across the M4 it's not worth a damn.
*apologies for the appalling pun in the title.

Update: having looked at Patrick Wright's blog I found this post about Melvyn Bragg's brilliant In Our Time rather amusing.