By Benjamin Kunkel, from Buzz: A Play, published in May as part of the n+1 Small Books Series. Kunkel is the author of the novel Indecision and the essay collection Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis.

[tom and college girl together. She wields a digital voice recorder, switched on.]

college girl: Can I say you seem kind of preoccupied?
tom: [After a pause] Would you mind turning that thing off for a second?