we continued our season about the internet last week with katie runde’s the shore, and today we’re talking to katie about the jersey shore, boardwalk games, and catfishing your mom. we talk about how to avoid writing misery porn, different generations of internet, and the types of deception the characters in the shore embody. katie talks about how her life experiences (and tech advancements) shifted the narrative as she wrote the book. we talk about mount airy lodge. joey demands a favor.

katie’s mini-module picks, themed around the shore:
we are not ourselves by matthew thomas
goodbye vitamin by rachel khong
the swimmers by julie otsuka
smacked by eilene zimmerman
rock the boat by beck dorey-stein
the girl’s guide to hunting and fishing by melissa bank

reading list for season three
a touch of jen by beth morgan
the shore by katie runde
literally show me a healthy person by darcie wilder
17776 by jon bois
snow crash by neal stephenson
no one is talking about this by patricia lockwood
amygdalatropolis by b r yeager
shitstorm by fernando sdrigotti
things have gotten worse since we last spoke by eric larocca
liveblog by megan boyle
neuromancer by william gibson
fake accounts by lauren oyler
we had to remove this post by hanna bervoets