Chew’s fiction editor, Lauren Beukes, will be in London next week for a blitz tour to promote her new book, Zoo City. If you’re in London, go check it out as the Cape Town launch was an …

Question: How do you make Jane from the Land of Plain’s life seem envious? How do you make John Doe as intriguing as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde combined? How do you mask the insignificant and the banal in life? Through the beer goggles of social networking, of course.