Fob Story
The Lilliputians gape at Gulliver’s pocket watch just as we drool over the Apple Watch. Swift himself would have sniffed at our techno-frenzy (but he would have loved the watch).
Nina Martyris has written for the Missouri Review and Dissent and the online sites of the Guardian, Harper's, New Republic, Prospect, and Lapham's Quarterly; and she is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.