“They scrolled into each other.” Honor Levy writes in her first book, appropriately called My First Book. “If they could have, they would have blushed, pink pixels on a screen.”
Levy’s writing is post-internet fiction at its most compelling, chronicling lives as “disembodied, laid out still, frozen shining cold in blue light, Liquid Crystal Display.” The collection recalls Madeline Cash’s Earth Angel in that both books speak the language of the extremely online Gen Z It Girl—ironic, surreal, avant-garde, and sincere when you least expect it. Below read Honor go off on emojis, edgelords, and the panic of plot.
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