Shannon Keating

Narratives and writing about life, identity, the web, relationships and research.

Explaining the weird new future, one newsletter at a time. Subscribe for a twice weekly delivery of internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come.

You're not crazy, the world is.

I'm Fran Hoepfner and this is Fran Magazine.

Novelist and journalist, often called a Southern writer. My writing is funny, smart, and sometimes quite moving.

Chipping away at the inscrutability of modern life, popular culture, and how we feel about both.

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