10:04 Ben Lerner Part: One

Within part one of Ben Lerner's novel 10:04, I found the relationship between the unspecified narrator and Alex fascinating and immensely satisfying. I found it particularly intriguing on how social media and media in general could be related to the problem the two have interacting with each other while holding eye contact. Ben Lerner could be …

Jennifer Egan’s Black Box

I was tasked with reading the Twitter version of Jennifer Egan's short story first. My final thoughts internalized towards the reading revolved around lack of connectivity. I could not hurdle the idea of reading each tweet individual of the next tweet. As if the short story, Black Box, was simply a stream of consciousness in tweet …