Even those who have been the focus of Lauren Oyler’s criticism have, at times, admitted the usefulness of a “truly scathing” review of their bullshit. Oyler rode the internet’s appetite for a well-argued pan to prominence, publishing criticisms of Roxane Gay, Jia Tolentino, and Greta Gerwig that, with time and distance, could actually have been harsher, she tells Lit Hub. Her latest book of essays, No Judgment, follows Fake Accounts, her 2021 pseudo-metafictional novel about an American living in Berlin and interrogating the ways the online world allows us to elide our True Selves, whatever those are, in a fun way.
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