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Granta 167: Extraction Online
You Are the Product
‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
You Are the Product
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
You Are the Product
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
You Are the Product
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
Two Poems
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
Tim Parks
Tim Parks was born in Manchester and moved to Italy in 1981. He is the author of five non-fiction accounts of life in northern Italy, most recently A Literary Tour of Italy, and sixteen novels. He has translated the work of, among others, Alberto Moravia and Italo Calvino and writes for the New York Review of Books blog. Painting Death, his latest novel, is published by Harvill Secker.
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