Main Character: A Short Novel About Social Media Disaster

By Erica Anoe

"Peanut butter is garbage."

 

After a bad night out, Leslie Taylor posts these words on social media before bed. 

 

She wakes up as the internet's main character: the person everyone is paying attention to. 

 

The saying goes that the goal is to never be the main character. Find out what Leslie does when she has no choice. 

 

Told in part through fictional articles satirizing the cacophony of online discourse, Main Character is the novelization of famous internet blowups you've read about on the news and in your feeds. It's Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed remixed with Siri Hustvedt's The Blazing World. 

 

It's something you'd never want to happen to you. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lonely Robot Press
• Release date: Jun 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201477332

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