Character Limits

Who doesn't love the idea of a novel ripped straight from the headlines of daily life, which is also now to say, our digital lives? Every Twitter addict with literary aspirations harbors the dream that there's a little novelist napping inside of them; that "Thread." and "This." are actual sentences; that stalking someone's timeline constitutes critical research into the human condition; and that the dramatis personae of social media are nothing if not supremely crafted characters.