How to Be Intimate with 15,000,000 Strangers (The Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture Series)

by Brett Kahr

First published 2023

Tucked away in a cramped apartment, a lonely writer obsessively maintains an online persona with 15 million followers. But as his digital fame grows, his real-world isolation deepens. When a shocking revelation threatens to shatter his carefully curated image, he must confront the fraught realities of seeking intimacy through screens. At its heart, this is a poignant story about the human need for connection in an age of hyperconnectivity.

Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, 21st-century

Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking

Tropes: character-study, unreliable-narrator

298 pages · Paperback · Routledge

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