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|title=Fifteen Minutes

|author=Erinna Mettler

|isbn=978-1911586364

|website= http://www.erinnamettler.com/

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Our world is obsessed with celebrity culture - and in this advent of social media, the updates on celebrity come 24 hours a day, delivered to us on our televisions, our magazines, on our phones and our computers. In focusing on these heightened and airbrushed lives though, are we missing the more interesting and human stories that are out there? That's what Erinna Mettler considers in ''15 Minutes'' - short stories that feature celebrity encounters told through the eyes of ordinary, but no less compelling, characters.

Each story explores humanity in a subtly different way - and combined these reads are moving, funny, and an intelligent meditation on how celebrity and fame impact all of us, whether we want them too or not. It's also worth mentioning that this book was published through Unbound - a publishing company made up of three writers who clubbed together to form their own publishing house. Writers give Unbound ideas, which potential readers are then able to pledge their support for - building a network of patrons for the reader. I heartily reccomend checking them out, and perhaps supporting a book or two if they take your fancy. Thanks to them publishers for the copy, and for further reading I recommend [[Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter]] - short stories filled with beautifully chosen prose and compellingly gothic plots.

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