THE PROPOSITION OF establishing a grounded perspective in the headwind of an accelerated, hyper-referential culture appears paradoxical. How can a writer be expected to encapsulate the realities of life online in a way that engages readers humanistically, rather than algorithmically, if that same reader should finally be compelled to turn away from the television or social media in favor of the refuge of a book? In her debut, My First Book (2024), Honor Levy undertakes this task by searching for something hopeful, if not divine, in the coldness of the digital world—a valiant effort, if one that inconsistently balances a curious interrogation of the language, fear, and life borne by the internet, without being consumed by its trappings and cliches.
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