Logan's 2023 novel about Peter Riley, an aspiring actor who becomes the online provocateur and cult leader 'Petrol'. It's written as short, dated fragments (forum posts, lectures, confessions) meant to feel like an endless scroll. It is the centre of the conversation.
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- A book for people who stopped reading
Troll was written with two-to-three-page chapters that mimic a feed, so that people who think they've lost their attention span can ease back into reading. Friends who 'don't read anymore'…
- Media literacy as defense
Part of Troll's purpose is to make readers more media literate: to ask what agenda sits behind the content they consume, and what their own habits are doing to them. Some readers said it…
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- Satisfied Customer excerpt from Troll
- Petrol's origin in Logan's own fear
- The drama teacher lifted from life