Sep 15, 2014 6:30 AM

Gallery: A Brilliantly Witty Book Mined From Twitter's Wannabe Novelists

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Cory Arcangel's new book, *Working on My Novel* was culled from two years of tweets about the same.
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The artist sees the book as a meditation on the act of creation---but also a document of what life's like at our specific moment in time.

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Arcangel gravitated to the ones that made some comment on the world around them, even in some small, seemingly mundane way. "I didn't have a defined criteria," he says of the process. "It's a lot of a 'I know it when I see it.'"
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"A good tweet has to be able to stand by itself. It has paint a really good picture."

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Christopher Null

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