![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not on Twitter so I learn about these things via looking stuff up on Wikipedia and the like. Tolentino tweeted something implying the strange intimacy of being read with such thoroughgoing disgust as Oyler displayed towards her (and also turned on Kristen Roupenian, author of viral hit short story “Cat People”) was somewhat enjoyable, and to the best of my knowledge that was that. It doesn’t really look that likely to materialize. ![]() ![]() Thinking and writing about the Internet and identity has gotten so tedious that when I found out that Lauren Oyler, whose acclaimed new debut novel “Fake Accounts” I was listening to at work, wrote a “scathing” review of well-known Internet scribe Jia Tolentino’s book of essays, “Trick Mirror,” I fantasized that maybe they could get into a rivalry, like Nas and Jay-Z or at least Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer, to lend some interest to a contemporary literary scene that sorely needs it. Noah Sapperstein: You wanted to save drama, but you have created nothing worth saving. Jia Tolentino, “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion” (2019) (narrated by the author) Lauren Oyler, “Fake Accounts” (2021) (narrated by Rebecca Lowman) Name Asterisk on Review- Ma, “Harassment A… Review – Fountain, “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk”. ![]()
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