“Some people are plagued by uncertainty—they don’t know what they want to do with their lives,” Caroline Calloway writes in “Scammer,” her new memoir. “My affliction is that I have only ever wanted to be one very specific thing.” Calloway is a thirty-one-year-old Internet celebrity, who, in 2013, established herself as one of the first Instagram influencers by purchasing forty thousand bot followers and posting diaristic captions about her escapades as an American college student in Europe. She is also a socialite—previously “the Gatsby of Cambridge,” and now a New York magazine-certified “ ‘It’ girl”—as well as a self-proclaimed art historian and teacher, a purveyor of skin-care products, and a former OnlyFans star. She is an agent of chaos, a perpetual overpromiser, and, according to the title of her book, a scammer. But what she has always wanted to be, she now tells us, is a writer—specifically, a “famous memoirist.”
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