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Jennifer Egan on storytelling in a data-hooked world

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Goon Squad - A Novel That's Different Than Other Novels

Gonsquat is the second book in a series of young adult novels by British author Nick Clegg. The novel has been compared to navigating through social media, but it's more about moving between worlds than one-to-one interaction with other people. It was inspired by games like Dungeons and dragons where you move among different worlds written on graph paper. And essentially, you're moving through portals in an out of imaginary worlds.

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