Back in the ‘90s, when the Internet seemed new (I know, I know, it was decades old at that point, but it wasn’t until the era of Seinfeld and scrunchies that most people noticed it), there was a brief flourishing of epistolary novels — that is, stories told through a series of communiques. In previous decades/centuries, such books tended to focus on hand-written letters, as in The Screwtape Letters, Dracula, and Bridget Jones’s Diary. The.