The Internet Newspaper

Adam Gnade's pocketsize novel The Internet Newspaper is about working at the online version of a daily newspaper during the weird, clumsy, well-funded early days of the internet. Set in Southern California in the year 2000, Gnade's book shows an America that doesn't exist anymore--an awkward, wild, innocent place that has since given way to fury and regression. <p/> <p/>Here we bear witness to HTML coding and late-night party crime, hard drugs, and the birth of the "cats on the internet" phenomenon. The Internet Newspaper is lyrical, dark, philosophical, and true like all good fiction is true. <p/> <p/>Recommended if you like: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives, Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz, Bright Eyes, The Cure, Mexican food, committing crime, being a fucking badass, and Patti Smith's Just Kids.