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A review by caseythecanadianlesbrarian
Friend. Follow. Text.: #storiesFromLivingOnline by Greg Kearney, Marcy Rogers, Steve Karas, Ben Tanzer, Kate Baggott, Clayton Littlewood, Zoe Whittall, Dorianne Emmerton, Megan Stielstra, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang, Sonal Champsee, Alex Leslie, Heather Birrell, Christopher Woods, Jessica Westhead, Angelique Stevens, Steven Heighton, Beverly C. Lucey, Shawn Syms, Wyl Villacres, Trevor Corkum, Charles Lowe, Sara Press, K. Tait Jarboe, Robert Holt, Lisa Mrock, Judy Darley
5.0
How fitting is it that I found out about the anthology Friend. Follow. Text.: #storiesFromLivingOnline on goodreads, and the editor Shawn Syms found out that I was interested in it on twitter, because I had written about it on my blog. He kindly sent me a pdf review copy to my email. Although this collection isn’t explicitly queer, the editor Shawn Syms is and so are quite a few of the contributors and/or their stories: Marcy Rogers, Zoe Whittall, Trevor Corkum, Megan Stielstra, K Tait Jarboe, Dorianne Emmerton, Clayton Littlewood, and Alex Leslie.
This anthology begins with the simple premise that “Technology, social media and online communication have changed the way we live our lives – and the way we write about them.” Some of the contributors are really playing with form here (there are whole stories in text messages) whereas some are more concerned with social media in terms of content. As with all anthologies, I had some favourites. Let’s talk about them.
(Marcy Rogers, Zoe Whittall, Jessica Westhead, Trevor Corkum, Megan Strielstra, Dorianne Emmerton were my favourites).
See the full review here: http://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/queers-social-media-and-fiction-a-review-of-friend-follow-text-storiesfromlivingonline-edited-by-shawn-syms/
This anthology begins with the simple premise that “Technology, social media and online communication have changed the way we live our lives – and the way we write about them.” Some of the contributors are really playing with form here (there are whole stories in text messages) whereas some are more concerned with social media in terms of content. As with all anthologies, I had some favourites. Let’s talk about them.
(Marcy Rogers, Zoe Whittall, Jessica Westhead, Trevor Corkum, Megan Strielstra, Dorianne Emmerton were my favourites).
See the full review here: http://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/queers-social-media-and-fiction-a-review-of-friend-follow-text-storiesfromlivingonline-edited-by-shawn-syms/