Iowa City Twitter Novel Comes to an End

An Exquisite Corpse, built Tweet by Tweet, was put to rest Sunday afternoon at the Englert Theatre.

Novel Iowa City was complete.

A small crowd gathered to watch the Tweets as they rolled in on the big screen as the Twitter novel, composed entirely of Tweets submitted by a variety of contributors, reached its completion at 5 p.m.

As the novel rounded to a close, there was mention of unrequited love, cicadas, heat, the World Cup, Mennonite singers, a random dead body that appeared and disappeared, a box with a replica of the Englert Theatre, an important letter, and of course, a knife wielding and mysterious dog named Mr. Dog. 

You can read the end of the novel here. The project was part of the Iowa City Book Festival, a three-day event which ended on Sunday evening.