Eli Goldstone

Eli Goldstone is mostly a screenwriter. Her novel Strange Heart Beating was published by Granta in 2017.

From The Blog
2 October 2025

The 77th Emmy Awards were over and I was heading home in the back of a self-driving car. I texted a friend, as I watched the wheel turning by itself: ‘I feel like I am being driven by a ghost.’ And of course, I was: the ghost of the cab driver whose livelihood has been taken away by a tech giant. I listened to music, encouraged by a disembodied voice to sing along as loudly as I wanted to: ‘We can’t hear you.’

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