“Everyone was reading the same short story. Laura Adamczyk at The AV Club describes the novel as “a greatest and worst hits of the 2017 internet,” and I certainly felt a horrified recognition at the events of Charlottesville (“When the car plowed into a crowd of protestors at a Nazi rally, she was there”) and the eruption over Kristen Roupenian’s ‘Cat Person’: Part One is a novelisation of Twitter (here called “the portal”) interspersed with the life of an unnamed digital culture connoisseur, who “had become famous for a post that said simply, Can a dog be twins?” This section is a reworking of Lockwood’s excellent 2019 talk/essay ‘The Communal Mind,’ and like that piece, it’s a dizzying kaleidoscope of delight, disgust, and painful, painful memories. It is also a novel about family, grief, and caring for a baby with Proteus syndrome. No One Is Talking About This is a novel about being Extremely Online.
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