![]() ![]() Fortunately, I don't think anyone will accuse Julie DiCaro's book of failing to live up to her innate talent. I thought the point about hyping women writers' innate talent so as to chastise them for not fulfilling it was an interesting one. She should just give up the ghost and get on Substack with everyone else who voted for Bernie and makes people mad. Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir. Trick Mirror, published in the London Review of Books, Oyler notes the intellectual. ![]() It really was a bad outcome for her: she talked shit about what Jia Tolentino and Sally Rooney do, tried to do it herself, but did it worse. THE UNNAMED NARRATOR of Lauren Oylers debut novel is an ex-blogger. ![]() I've always grouped her in with the more heterodox side of the left - hell, she went after Jia Tolentino, which everyone else is loath to do - but the book was written in a much more conventional girlbossy tone and didn't exactly feel like a satire of it. I was disappointed, because I think Lauren Oyler is a really good reviewer (Freddie's review of her Trick Mirror review is surprisingly uncharitable), but I don't think her fiction is too great. The writing is brilliant, bringing to life a narrator with a penetrating gaze and a. I started Fake Accounts and waited for it to get better. Oyler, a prolific critic and reviewer, has written a novel that is a pleasure to read and easy to inhale. ![]()
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