{"id":13705,"date":"2021-06-04T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T18:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=13705"},"modified":"2021-06-04T14:25:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T18:25:42","slug":"the-internet-novel-comes-of-age-im-at-first-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/06\/the-internet-novel-comes-of-age-im-at-first-things.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Internet Novel Comes of Age&#8221;: I&#8217;m at First Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>reviewin\u2019:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A half-century\u00a0after\u00a0ARPANET created networks of computers,\u00a0the \u201cInternet novel\u201d is coming of age at last. Patricia Lockwood\u2019s\u00a0<em>No One Is Talking About This<\/em>\u00a0and Samit Basu\u2019s\u00a0<em>Chosen Spirits<\/em>\u00a0take radically different approaches to depicting the unreal cities we\u2019ve created online:\u00a0the time-sucks and the comments-box arenas, the sloughs of scrolling despond and the candylands of trivia. Reading either novel will show you something about this shadow-world. Reading both together gets you even closer to\u00a0understanding\u00a0the experience\u2014sometimes choral, sometimes cacophonic\u2014of life online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2021\/06\/the-internet-novel-comes-of-age\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>those who subscribe to my <a href=\"http:\/\/evetushnet.substack.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">substack<\/a> will soon get some of my favorite quotations from the Lockwood, including one which was cruelly axed by an editor I can only describe as \u201cnormal\u2026 not damaged\u2026 doesn\u2019t get it\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>reviewin\u2019: A half-century\u00a0after\u00a0ARPANET created networks of computers,\u00a0the \u201cInternet novel\u201d is coming of age at last. Patricia Lockwood\u2019s\u00a0No One Is Talking About This\u00a0and Samit Basu\u2019s\u00a0Chosen Spirits\u00a0take radically different approaches to depicting the unreal cities we\u2019ve created online:\u00a0the time-sucks and the comments-box arenas, the sloughs of scrolling despond and the candylands of trivia. 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