Emmett Rensin
Emmett Rensin is an American essayist and political commentator who writes from a leftist perspective. Originally from Los Angeles, he currently serves as a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. In 2012, he was a founding member of Chicago's First Floor Theater, which won the Chicago Reader’s Best of 2013 Poll for "Best New Theater Company".
''Twitterature'' (2009)
Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter, coauthored with Alexander Aciman, was published in 2009, when both authors were 19-year-old undergraduates. The book comprises summaries of around 50 well-known literary texts in the form of series of Twitter posts.
In June 2016, Vox, which employed Rensin as an editor and occasional feature writer, suspended him for a series of tweets calling for anti-Trump riots, including one on June 3 that urged, "If Trump comes to your town, start a riot."