Jordan Castro s debut The Novelist is a relatable and humorous study in the economy of plotting, ironic description, and the addictive nature of the self.
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A few pages into Jordan Castro’s debut novel, The Novelist, a slim autofictional account of a writer attempting, and often failing, to write a novel while contending with the ruinous effects of a social media obsession, I snapped a photo of the cover and uploaded it to Twitter. I don’t usually flash my review copies of the books I’m reviewing. But since The Novelist was receiving significant buzz and high praise from some of the coolest cats in the literary scene, I wanted to get in on the action. I, too, received an early copy of The Novelist, my tweet not-so-subtly intimated. Alex Perez is one of the literary scene’s cool cats. The likes rolled in, confirming my supreme coolness, and as I sat poolside in Orlando, Florida, on vacation I now blame the heat for my tackiness I felt embarrassed but, sadly, also very validated. I knew what I was doing, but did it anyway, because Twitter, as The Novelist’s unnamed narrator, whose “brain felt glitchy” due to social media ov