Lauren Oyler – Fake Accounts

Condemned out of her own mouth.

In a fairly unenthusiastic review of Jia Tolentino’s book of essays Trick Mirror in the LRB of January 2020, Lauren Oyler says,

What seems evident to me is that public writing is always at least a little bit self-interested, demanding, controlling and delusional, and that it’s the writer’s responsibility to add enough of something else to tip the scales away from herself.