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In 2000, after years writing about Silicon Valley, Borsook published “Cyberselfish,” a book that discerned within the tech utopianism of the era a dead-eyed, woman-hating social malevolence—what the subtitle called the “Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-Tech.”

“Cyberselfish” got warm, if occasionally baffled, reviews. It sold something like 5,000 copies in hardcover and another 2,000 in paperback, a respectable mid-list number. And then … nothing.

After the book’s publication, Borsook could no longer get work. She began to wonder if she had been blacklisted. She went broke and was getting by on a GoFundMe and support from friends. She’d taken to calling the book TDB. That damn book.