My First Book by Honor Levy review – extremely online
The Guardian - 2024-05-15T10:00:38.000Z

Frustration drives in an anxious Zoomer’s tour of the web“My rules for our world weren’t followed.” Thus laments Honor Levy, NYC lit scene enfant terrible, in her debut short story collection, My First Book. Levy’s legislative longing becomes a kind of refrain, revisited and reconstructed throughout the book’s vignettes. These index the worries and fixations of an extremely online young person (Levy is 26): internet love, cancel culture, apocalypse, techno-dystopia, the merits of identity...

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