Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

If you've ever felt imprisoned by work, the internet, or your mortal body, buy this book twice.'- Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens 'A brilliant, laugh-out-loud funny slice of unglued genius about the triumphs and tyranny of the online workplace.

With cursed spreadsheets, pregnant lizards, backchannel smack-talk, :dusty_sticks:, and the creepiest gifs in American literature, Calvin Kasulke doesn't just commit to the bit the bit commits to him. Questions like: Is that thing real? Is he possessed? What otherworldly realm is this? Where are those wolves howling from? And the scariest: Did I reply-all? Finding human connection in disembodied Slack chat, Several People Are Typing makes the impossible seem possible.'- Helen Ellis, bestselling author of American Housewife and Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light ' Several People Are Typing is the first novel I've read that feels written of, about, and inside the internet. 'Calvin Kasulke knows what makes a spooky story good. and give us hope that we can still find a human connection. And if Gerald gets to work from home all the time, why can't everyone? Is true love possible between two people, when one is just a line of text in an app? And what in the hell does the: dusty-stick: emoji mean? In a time when office paranoia and politics have followed us home, Calvin Kasulke is here to capture the surprising, absurd, and fully-relatable factors attacking our collective sanity.

And their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture.

Their biggest client, a high-end dog food company, is in the midst of recalling a bad batch of food that's allegedly poisoning Pomeranians nationwide. Meanwhile, Gerald's colleagues have PR catastrophes of their own to handle in the real world. But the longer Gerald stays in the void, the more alluring and absurd his reality becomes. Faced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists his co-worker Pradeep to help him escape, and to find out what happened to his body. His colleagues assume it's an elaborate gag to exploit the new work-from home policy, but now that Gerald's productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from. Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm has been uploaded into the company's internal Slack channels-at least his consciousness has. 'An absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism.' -Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack messages, this irresistible, relatable satire of both virtual work and contemporary life is The Office for a new world. A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! - A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF.

Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke