I’ve been thinking about emails lately. Jeff Jackson and I recently completed an epistolary review of I’m Very Into You, which is a collection of emails between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark from 1995. (The book and the review are both forthcoming, and I’ll share the link when the review is up.) As Jeff and I traded emails about this book of collected emails, it got me to thinking a lot about both emails and letters...any form of private correspondence. What it is to connect to someone in that way. This interests me in general—the ways that people connect, the ways we reach out to each other—but it holds particular interest because my next novel is semi-epistolary, with a major storyline playing out over email. (And tweets. There. I said it. Part of the novel takes place on Twitter. I know...I know... But I SWEAR I make it work.)
I'm Very Into You
I'm Very Into You
I'm Very Into You
I’ve been thinking about emails lately. Jeff Jackson and I recently completed an epistolary review of I’m Very Into You, which is a collection of emails between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark from 1995. (The book and the review are both forthcoming, and I’ll share the link when the review is up.) As Jeff and I traded emails about this book of collected emails, it got me to thinking a lot about both emails and letters...any form of private correspondence. What it is to connect to someone in that way. This interests me in general—the ways that people connect, the ways we reach out to each other—but it holds particular interest because my next novel is semi-epistolary, with a major storyline playing out over email. (And tweets. There. I said it. Part of the novel takes place on Twitter. I know...I know... But I SWEAR I make it work.)