The Novel in the Internet Age
[…] Can written narratives represent this world? Can they convey what it feels like to inhabit it? The movies, of course, have given up trying. The best they can do in order to travel the hidden channels through which fate conducts itself these days is cut back and forth between shots of people on phones or show someone typing on a keyboard and then display what’s appearing on the monitor. Novelists, with their access to the invisible, ought to be positioned to do better. How, though? […]
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