Watch digital native, Warhol, watch us watch him shatter the screen that mediates modern life. Through a dizzying collage of texts, chats, lyrics, and code, Warhol confronts the all-consuming influence of technology on art, love, and identity. From frenzied online hookups to zoom calls, from soulless corporate consultancy to impending climate catastrophe, Warhol searches for his lost love, Bea, within every image on his phone. As he endures the blurred lines between digital and physical reality, he questions the very nature of authenticity and human connection. Incisive, audacious, and darkly funny, A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man is a searing critique of our hyperconnected world, a literary hand grenade lobbed into the heart of the digital dystopia we've built for ourselves. With his electrifying debut novel, Pierce Day announces himself as a bold new voice in modern literature, one that fearlessly probes the depths of our digitally defined lives and challenges us to imagine a future beyond the infinite scroll. Part punk manifesto, part modernist love story, this book is a must-read for anyone who's ever stared into the black mirror of their phone screen and wondered what it means to be human in an age of ones and zeros.