Answer the following about recent fragment novels criticized in Becca Rothfeld’s collection All Things Are Too Small. For 10 points each:
[10m] Rothfeld points out the “blunted affect” in the plotless novels Dept. of Speculation and Weather, written by an author with this first name. Another author with this first name wrote about resisting the “attention economy” in How to Do Nothing.
ANSWER: Jenny [accept Jenny Odell or Jenny Offill]
[10h] Rothfeld singles out the “performance of profundity” in this 2020 Kate Zambreno novel, in which an alienated new mother attempts to finish her not-quite-novel while quoting Rilke, Walser, and Kafka.
ANSWER: Drifts
[10e] Rothfeld also discusses the “mercifully unfragmented novel” Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler, which discusses this entity. No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood was largely inspired by this thing, used to publish Jennifer Egan’s “Black Box.”
ANSWER: the internet [or the web or online spaces or cyberspace; accept internet novel; accept social media; accept Twitter or X]
<TH, American Literature>