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Penelope Trunk, aka Adrienne Roston '90, is the founder of three startups — most recently Brazen Careerist, a career management tool for next-generation professionals.
"It's this baby boomer myth that if you play like guys, you'll succeed," said Penelope Trunk, a Wilmette native who runs a blog called the Brazen Careerist.
Some examples of hypertext novels that keep to Coover's classic ideal are the hyperfictions of Adrienne Eisen, Judd Morrissey, and Judy Malloy. Eisen's works contrast the tactics of many normative hypertexts in the sense that there are few links and the narrative is usually framed within the first-person account of a particular character and his or her life situation. While the reader has some choice with respect to what text portion to read, these choices are quite limited so that getting through all the links is not a burdensome project as it is with the more complex hypertexts that initially defined the genre, notably Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story.
The voice belongs to Penelope Trunk, a columnist and blogger for Boston Globe and Yahoo!, and a recent arrival to Madison who has a book on careers coming out this month. . . Trunk, who was born Adrienne Roston and lived in New York before moving to Madison in August, says there were a number of reasons she chose here. . . The approach is neatly encapsulated in her new book, also entitled "Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success," which comes out May 25 from Warner Press.
The independent-thinking Trunk has been a software executive, entrepreneur and professional beach volleyball player. She writes a column, "The Climb," which runs in the Boston Globe, and a syndicated column, "Brazen Careerist," featured on Yahoo Finance.
I launched the web site because I was writing interactive stories for CD-Rom, before there was the Internet (outside of the university setting) and I saw the Web as a way to distribute my writing much more easily than on CD-Rom.
Perhaps more typical, from the design point of view, is Adrienne Eisen's 'Six Sex Scenes' — the story of a young Jewish woman's dysfunctional love-life, with frequent flashbacks into her equally dysfunctional childhood. Again, this is written in numerous short sections; but in this piece, instead of the organisational scheme being laid bare at the outset, we are merely presented with a many-forked path and left to explore it as we may. The story always starts with a section entitled 'Therapy', but at the end of this section we are presented with a list of possibilities: 'You Suck/Bored/ Mind Disorder/My Room with a View'. If we choose 'My Room with a View' from this menu, we are taken to another section with another list of alternatives at the end: 'Mom Says to Aim for a Nice Arc/Reading/The SPIN Woman/The Wisdom of Puberty'. Whichever section we choose to view next, at its end we have to choose again from another list, and so on.
Like a boxing match, hypertext-the original format of much of this novel-demands quick, punchy prose that will keep the reader riveted between mouse clicks. Sex helps, too. But while this first print effort by veteran hypertext writer Eisen has generous helpings of both, it serves mostly as a cautionary tale about the difficulty of moving Internet-ready writing to the page. The unnamed narrator is a stunning young woman who wants to play professional beach volleyball-at least until she decides to become a model, and then a graduate student.
As for Ms. Trunk's new company, it is still in a beta launch mode. But I have a hunch I'll be visiting often since it appears to be a place where people are already starting to congregate to talk about what is new in careers. So far, about 60 career bloggers (vetted by one of Ms. Trunk's partners, Ryan Paugh) have joined the network.
Their very familiarity with social media mores and trends can make them attractive hires for companies looking to market to young people, said Ryan Paugh, the 27-year-old cofounder of Brazen Careerist, a Web-based community for business networking.
Don't wait until the end of the interview to ask about the job and what the employer is looking for in a candidate, says Darlington, Wis.-based career expert Penelope Trunk.
