![]() ![]() ![]() Oyler spoke to GQ about putting this Brooklyn guy on the page, how it feels to be online, whether men or women are worse internet users, and why we should stop complaining about influencers. ![]() Oyler perfectly, cringingly captures the pseudo-worldly millennial hustler, who has surface charms but whose depth seems nonexistent, and who stumbles into an overpaid tech job despite a desire to paint, in the character of Felix, who simultaneously and secretly has a life as one of Instagram’s leading conspiracy theorists.Īfter the protagonist discovers her boyfriend’s secret, Oyler then unravels-in a darkly comic novel that takes several satiric turns, including a memorable send-up of autofiction-the weighty, inescapable feeling of being online and never being able to log off, and the way we create fictional universes for ourselves. In her first novel, Fake Accounts, Lauren Oyler, the lacerating young critic known for her missives on writers like Jia Tolentino and Roxane Gay, has created the spiritual successor to that sad literary man. nailed a certain kind of Brooklyn guy: the soppy, self-obsessed, and manipulative Brooklyn-bound intellectual of the Obama years. Almost a decade ago, Adelle Waldman’s The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. ![]()
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