Novel Tweets

Isaac Fitzgerald bio ↓  ·  July 14th, 2009  ·  filed under books

Matt Stewart is hoping to make history this Bastille Day by becoming the first author (“as far as he can tell”) to publish his entire full-length novel via Twitter.

The novel, conveniently titled The French Revolution, “is an epic San Francisco tale exploring the haywire extremes of the French Revolution within the microcosm of a dysfunctional family.”

Stewart, who has written for Instant City and listed for McSweeney’s, says that he wants to “try a social experiment—see how the world reacts to a long-form tale told in snippets.”

So will it work? Stewart starts his experiment today, follow and find out.

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Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and been given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. He has also written for The Bold Italic, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Follow him on Twitter. More from this author →

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