New Millennium Boyz

“There’s no way a robot wrote this book. A no-holds-barred tour of the Millennial mindset’s spiritual DNA. Anything goes.” – Douglas Coupland“…a raw, raunchy, alternately sickening, sweet, maddening and heartbreaking read that immerses you in the lives of three privileged high school boys living out their senior year of 1999-2000, staving off boredom via increasingly depraved adventures. I could hardly put the book down, partly because it’s an addictive page-turner but also because it is set in such a specific time and through events that I reported on during my time as a correspondent for MTV News.” – John Norris, Daily Beast“As one might expect from its turn-of-the-century setting, New Millennium Boyz exists in the shadow of Columbine, engaging with the dark mythos that the shooters left behind.” – V Magazine“In New Millennium Boyz, moments of brutal violence, underage sex, and slur-laden dialogue cut through the bleak boredom of teenage suburbia—and they don’t go unpunished. At the same time, he’s critical of the lazy antagonism that’s typical of his contemporaries, singling out the creatives and podcasters that have emerged from the “post-Red Scare” cultural landscape.” – Dazed“New Millennium Boyz is a VR trip into the sludge of 1999… Kazemi takes a jackhammer to our often reductive nostalgia of the era, revealing its debauched sticky slime.” – Nylon“Kazemi beautifully captures that psychological phase in high school where people leave childhood friends for new ones.” – Washington Independent Review of Books“I walked a path parallel to my own, and it was honest, authentic and awful. New Millennium Boyz is an intrusively intimate narration of someone who lived in familiar coordinates yet a different social stratum. That wholly un-unique alienation and emptiness is one that fills me with a nostalgia for a past that was, and was not, my own.” – Brooks Brown, Columbine Survivor and Author“Alex Kazemi is a boy wonder.” – Shirley Manson“Please consider adding Mr. Kazemi’s tome to your personal library.” – Dennis Cooper“Male culture is only getting more difficult for young boys and men to navigate. They deserve better, and this book, in all of its violence, depravity and desperation should be read as a demand to change our collective culture that strips so many young men of their humanity… to all of our detriment. You will want to put this book down many times, similar to the way we turn our heads or click away from news that overwhelms us. But we all, whether we are aware of it or not, are in this world that Kazemi is forcing us to look at.” – Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes

Alex Kazemi is a pop artist, creative director, and novelist. He served as Features Editor for the inaugural edition of King Kong Garçon and his work has been featured in Dazed, i-D, Playboy, Resident Advisor, King Kong, V, Paper, The New York Observer, Wonderland, and Oyster, among others. He lives in Vancouver.

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