It must’ve been done? More than once I’m sure. Novels composed entirely of emails, text messages, IMs and tweets?
Since I get all my reading material from random coincidence I haven’t come across the above, but Dopers are hip, you guys will know.
Well, there’s E: A Novel by Matt Beaumont.
Japanese cell phone novels:
carlotta writes:
> Dopers are hip
I’m not hip. I don’t even go out anymore. I just stay home with my cat and watch old French movies, you know. That’s me. [Sees poster for The Four Hundred Blows on carlotta’s wall] So, I should be going.*
- Yes, it’s a reference. Do you know to what?
No, it’s driving me crazy. I’m not even unhip enough to get your reference. Tell me!
Here’s what I was quoting:
Not exactly epistolary, but there’s *Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry * by Leann Shapton. The story of a couple meeting, coming together and breaking up, represented by the auction catalog of their possessions.
The Gum Thief, by Douglas Coupland.
Meg Cabot has written a couple books solely in emails and instant messages.
Quite a few teen books are written that way these days, I’ve noticed. But Lauren Myracle’s ttyl and all its sequels (written as a series of IMs) are the books that made me decide that I could probably just transcribe some of my more angsty IM exchanges and get my own series with minimal effort.
(Though if I’m required to pick a pen name like that, I may rethink that plan.)
Griffin and Sabine.