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While many condemned Elizabeth Gilbert s choice to pull her forthcoming novel The Snow Forest from Riverhead s publishing schedule, two contrary statements from PEN America and the Authors Guild show there is no consensus over the controversy.
In “Notifications,” Lincoln Michel looks closely at how a person s day can be awkwardly reconfigured by an algorithm. Michel s stories frequently adjust the knobs of the present and settle in the uncanny valley, like Saunders s, or amplify a feeling that something is fundamentally off with our timeline. Here, Michel explores the emotional implications of technology, a sort of hard sci-fi realism that drops the reader into a plausible hologram of workplace interaction. The always overthought, dreamlike logic is not dissimilar to the way a Kafka story, like “The Judgment,” operates. Kafkaesque indecision, but now with cell phones!