So why the reluctance to bare all on social media? “I’m not a person who writes particularly well when I’m also putting a lot of effort into a public-facing persona,” she explained. “It’s not like I’ve written a book that’s negative about technology,” Zevin said in a phone interview. Our reviewer, Tom Bissell, described the book as a “delightful and absorbing” story “about brilliant young game designers hitting it big and slowly growing apart.” She did post a time-lapse of hands frantically completing a jigsaw puzzle on Instagram but - spoiler alert - the finished product turned out to be the cover of her fifth novel, “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” which is now in its second week on the hardcover fiction list. She has an author page on Facebook but hasn’t updated her status (do we still say this?) since March 2021. What a revolutionary concept! Zevin’s opinions, musings, Wordle scores and snack choices are not available on Twitter. “After that time, I completely disappear from the internet and resume writing books again.” “I’m allergic to being online, but you will sometimes find me on Instagram, and only for the three months before and after I have a book out,” she writes under the “Contact” tab. In lieu of links to Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn and so forth, Zevin provides an unusual statement. If you visit Gabrielle Zevin’s author website, you will encounter a kind of opacity that is downright refreshing.
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