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Eli horowitz is the coauthor of the silent history, a digital novel. Fiction, scifi, dystopia, adult literature, contemporary fiction, social media literature. Most will simply treat silents as undesirables, not really human, and definitely second class citizens. The silent history audiobook by eli horowitz, matthew. The silent history is by one of the former heads of mcsweeneys, cowritten with some other brilliant folks, and when i heard about it back in 2012 it was a novelbywayofapp, or a traveling interactive bookexperience, or some kind of very ambitious techy hybrid storyform that i only vaguely understood and did not have the deviceproficiency to access. This is the premise of a new, serialized digital novel, the silent history, by kevin moffett, matthew derby, russell quinn and eli horowitz. The silent history turns up the noise on a new kind of e. Highsmiths america, library of congress, prints and photographs division. A novel kindle edition by horowitz, eli, derby, matthew, moffett, kevin. Originally conceived and serially published as an awardwinning iphoneipad app by eli horowitz, the former publisher of mcsweeneys, along with two acclaimed novelists matthew derby and kevin moffett and one intrepid coder russell quinn, the book has been reedited and, at times, rewritten into a definitive, nuanced and unputdownable text. The world reels with shock and dismay when an entire generation of children is born without the ability to create or comprehend language. The editorial brain behind the project is eli horowitz, author, editor, and former. Buy the silent history by horowitz, eli, derby, matthew, moffett, kevin from amazons fiction books store.
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