![]() ![]() ![]() “What I’m doing,” says the businessman, “is I’m optioning the rights to people’s stories, just ordinary Americans. ![]() Consider the ambitious tech entrepreneur, sitting in a Manhattan restaurant “where the air smelled of arugula and money,” as he pitches a startup called Extra/-a platform that offers a window into the lives of “ordinary people” for a subscription fee, and their “extraordinary” counterparts (models, celebrities) for an additional premium. Jennifer Egan’s 2001 novel, Look at Me, described New York’s crowded loneliness by contrasting an image-obsessed Manhattan model with the willful insularity of seemingly normal people in Rockford, Illinois, and ended up predicting the next decade’s social media landscape with alarming clarity. ![]()
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