Michael Kaplan

Literary fiction about the internet still tends to centre a singular narrator experiencing strangers through their online presence. How might writers dissolve this centralised voice and embrace the messy cacophony of the internet?

We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, Jane Schoenbrun’s claustrophobic creepypasta horror, captures what makes the internet soothing and terrifying and real and unreal all at once. Watching the film we experience all the discomfort and anxiety that arises when the lines between reality and simulation start to blur.