M.T. Anderson

Biography

M.T. Anderson (Matthew Tobin Anderson, born 1968) published Feed in 2002, one year after the September 11 attacks, during the period when the internet was transitioning from novelty to infrastructure. He has spoken in interviews about writing Feed as a response to advertising, the early internet, and what he perceived as the voluntary surrender of attention. He was working as a children's book editor and had already published picture books when Feed appeared. The novel was a National Book Award finalist. Anderson has noted that he wrote it quickly, that it came from a place of genuine alarm, and that he was surprised and disturbed by how quickly the technology it satirized became real.

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