Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR. Several People Are Talking was published today by Doubleday. And, you know, people weren’t going to understand. You know, I was just convinced that in a year or two… Slack was going to be…outmoded by something else. “I kept on saying…this book is going to age like yogurt. “I wrote it in a couple of months in early 2019,” he said. Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke - 9781529358384 Categories: Contemporary Fiction Thriller Books Thrillers Horror Horror Science Fiction Science Fiction 30 off Share Several People Are Typing Paperback English By (author) Calvin Kasulke US8.68 US12.43 You save US3. In an interview with NPR, Kasulke said he hadn’t predicted how much Slack would have become a part of everyday life when he started writing the book. “If you’ve ever sent a text message or DM or been in a group chat, you’re totally gonna get this.” “Even though the book is written entirely in Slack chats, you don’t need to ever have used Slack or to even really know what Slack is to read this book,” he said. Readers unfamiliar with Slack and its enigmatically named “knock brush” notification sound don’t have to worry, Kasulke told GMA. A critic for Kirkus called the novel “a compulsively readable satire of modern corporate culture.” Kasulke’s novel, his first, follows an employee at a public relations firm in New York whose consciousness becomes trapped in his company’s Slack channel. Calvin Kasulke’s Several People Are Typing is the latest selection for the Good Morning America book club.
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