Celebrating 25 Years of FEED by M.T. Anderson

In 2027, the iconic YA dystopian novel Feed by M. T. Anderson will turn 25 years old, and today, Book Riot is revealing the new cover! 👉 Check out the high-resolution version, plus some behind-the-scenes insight into its design, in the What’s Up in YA newsletter. We also interviewed M. T. Anderson about the impact of his novel 25 years later. Here’s what he had to say. In earlier editions of Feed, you discuss the events of the novel as allegorical and satirical—not as predictions. But 25 years later, the feed feels closer to reality than ever, between social media feeds, AI, and technology like smart glasses. How has your perception of the feed of the novel changed since it was first published? When I wrote Feed, back in 2001, I really didn’t take the tech literally. The feed directly implanted in the brain was just supposed to evoke what was already true and what had been true even when I was a teen: the voice of advertising was in our heads, making demands, distorting our sense of possibility and our view of who we wanted to be. I felt it was obliterating our sense of self, our eccentricities, and perhaps most importantly, our understanding of how the world we relied on actually ...