author
Elias Hirschl
Elias Hirschl was born in Vienna in 1994. He is an author, musician, and slam poet and writes for theater and radio. Hirschl was awarded the Reinhard Priessnitz Prize in 2020. His books include: “Meine Freunde haben Adolf Hitler getötet und alles, was sie mir mitgebracht haben, ist dieses lausige T-Shirt” (My Friends Killed Adolf Hitler And All They Got Me Is This Lousy T-Shirt, 2016), “Hundert schwarze Nähmaschinen” (One Hundred Black Sewing Machines, 2017) and, published by Zsolnay, “Salonfähig” (Socially Acceptable, 2021).
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Zsolnay
The world is coming to an end. But until then, the narrator in Elias Hirschl’s new novel will continue working at the clickbait farm Smile Smile Inc., writing meaningless listicles designed to generate clicks. (Number 7 will make you cry!) They are just as trivial as the memes and YouTube videos her colleagues produce. Or the start-ups that her boyfriend Jonas founds on a weekly basis while the city burns.
Political, prophetic and funny… at least until the laughter threatens to choke you.
