Chad Taylor

Ms Fing

A notebook page from Electric. I was sitting up in bed late one night writing the novel ("lemonade" was later changed to "soda") and paused to sketch the cat ignoring me from the corner of the bed. She liked to perch there so she could be as far away from me as possible while I was writing. This only made me like her more.

Alex Kasman from the Department of Mathematics at the College of Charleston in South Carolina has reviewed Electric as part of MathFiction, a blog in which he collects information about significant references to mathematics in fiction. Even if he hadn't reviewed my novel I would still consider this approach to literature to be a very cool idea: a different way of slicing the data.