But they’re kind of double performing, because they’re performing their personalities online via Slack, and they’re also in a workspace where, obviously, they’re also always performing. We only ever meet the characters over Slack, but they still feel super fleshed out. MC: This is sort of a performance-lite question. McKayla Coyle: Okay so I was thinking a lot about performance, because, not to be Trans on Main, but I’m usually thinking about performance when I read.Ĭalvin Kasulke: Let’s go! It’s a trans book, let’s go. There’s romance, mystery, howling, sunsets, and body-swapping with the morally grey AI, Slackbot.Īlthough Kasulke and I no longer occupy the same Slack channels, I was lucky enough to get to sit down and FaceTime with him about bodies and the internet and other vast and unknowable things. Meanwhile, his coworkers all think he’s just working from home. The book follows Gerald, an employee at a marketing consulting company who somehow becomes trapped inside Slack and must convince his coworkers to save him. Several People Are Typing is a novel told entirely through Slack transcripts-Slack being an office messaging system similar to Microsoft Teams, or a more professional version of IM.
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