Aarthi Vadde is E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914–2016 (Columbia, 2016) and coeditor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume F: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2024), among other books. She is the president of the Society for Novel Studies (2025–27) and cofounder of its podcast Novel Dialogue.

• Introduction: Literature and Mass Writing1. Platform or Publisher?2. Attribution and Evasion3. Celebrity Twitter Fiction4. Fangirl Fiction5. Reading and LookingEpilogue: The Writer’s Hand-at-a-DistanceAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

We the Platform is the most persuasive and engaging account I’ve read of how the internet—rather than being a threat to literature—has become a legitimate and exciting site of literary creation, one where, as with all such sites, regular people and platform owners negotiate and renegotiate the balance of cultural power. A must-read.

Aarthi Vadde is E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914–2016 (Columbia, 2016) and coeditor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume F: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2024), among other books. She is the president of the Society for Novel Studies (2025–27) and cofounder of its podcast Novel Dialogue.

• Introduction: Literature and Mass Writing1. Platform or Publisher?2. Attribution and Evasion3. Celebrity Twitter Fiction4. Fangirl Fiction5. Reading and LookingEpilogue: The Writer’s Hand-at-a-DistanceAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

We the Platform is the most persuasive and engaging account I’ve read of how the internet—rather than being a threat to literature—has become a legitimate and exciting site of literary creation, one where, as with all such sites, regular people and platform owners negotiate and renegotiate the balance of cultural power. A must-read.

Aarthi Vadde is E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914–2016 (Columbia, 2016) and coeditor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume F: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2024), among other books. She is the president of the Society for Novel Studies (2025–27) and cofounder of its podcast Novel Dialogue.

• Introduction: Literature and Mass Writing1. Platform or Publisher?2. Attribution and Evasion3. Celebrity Twitter Fiction4. Fangirl Fiction5. Reading and LookingEpilogue: The Writer’s Hand-at-a-DistanceAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

We the Platform is the most persuasive and engaging account I’ve read of how the internet—rather than being a threat to literature—has become a legitimate and exciting site of literary creation, one where, as with all such sites, regular people and platform owners negotiate and renegotiate the balance of cultural power. A must-read.