A Book Written With Text Messages

A London artist became the latest author to use modern messaging to write a book.

Tracey Moberly, who saved 60,000-plus text messages since 1999, weaved the best ones into a narrative about her life in the new book "TEXT-ME-UP!"

While most people's texts are in the realm of the quotidian, Moberly's life may be more colorful than most. She has traveled to Siberia, Haiti and Colombia, protested against corporations such as Coca-Cola, released a thousand pink balloons over Manchester to seek out random new text friends and counts graffiti artist Banksy and other British art stars as correspondents.

Moberly said she decided to write the book with text messages, previously the subject of one of her art exhibitions, because she finds their content powerful.

"People put things in texts they would never ever say, some of them disgusting," she said. "I know so many people whose relationships have broken down from someone finding a text message."

Although texts certainly aren't common in books, Moberly's book idea isn't exactly novel. Japanese adolescents first perfected the art of writing fiction books on their cell phones eight years ago and the practice has spread to Europe and Africa.

Twitter and Facebook helped keep the demonstrations of the recent Arab Spring moving, and the tweets from that time have been compiled into a new book, "Tweets from Tahrir."

On a less serious note, the author of fake, comical Twitter impersonation of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel have reportedly earned author Dan Sinker a book deal for his tweets.

Whether they're being used for comedy purposes, posterity or to form a more complete record of a person's life, the prevalence of tweets, texts and other messages are a huge part of modern life. It was only a matter of time before they crept into storytelling.

It's also only a matter of time before modern messaging services appear more prevalently in the novels and nonfiction lining bookstore shelves -- or those shelves grow bare as more people replace print with book-writing online or on devices.

The message writers range from her father to troubled rocker Pete Doherty. The 336-page book costs $35.

A Book Written With Text Messages originally appeared at Mobiledia on Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:20 pm.

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