Public Access Afterworld by Jane Schoenbrun review – horror in the TV static

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According to The Guardian, 'Public Access Afterworld' is the debut novel by Jane Schoenbrun, director of 'I Saw the TV Glow' and 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma'. The story follows Bethany Peters, a trans woman working as a content moderator, who becomes entangled in a quest involving a non-binary youth named Jules and the mysterious 'crooked' people destined to vanish into the world behind TV screens. The novel weaves together disparate threads, including a youth rehabilitation center and the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, to critique the attention economy and the horrors of screen culture. Reviewer Sandra Newman describes the book as a blend of self-aware horror, high art, and kitsch, noting that Schoenbrun captures the perverse human longing to escape reality and become part of the story on the other side of the screen.