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Sign up for The New Statesman’s newsletters Tick the boxes of the newsletters you would like to receive. She does like it, however, when people quote her reviews back at her. She also recently disclosed in a podcast interview that she doesn’t read male novelists and doesn’t like music either. “I get the sense that Jia Tolentino must feel overwhelming pity for ugly women, if she has ever met one.” I’d be tempted to make a similar comment about Oyler and weak-minded people – but she doesn’t appear to go in much for pity. Her 5,000-word critique of Tolentino’s essay collection, Trick Mirror, homed in on the writer’s centring of her own feelings and her “shoddy mode of thinking”.
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Oyler’s problem with Normal People was Rooney’s “unwavering neatness” which leads to “pat lessons and characters totally lacking in mystery”. She has little patience with mainstream feminism and its “rampant false hatred towards men”. She has no qualms about dropping plot spoilers and believes the elision between entertaining genre fiction and meaningful art in literary fiction is “concerning”. She’s sick of books written in a fragmentary style and blames a significant number of bad novels on Master of Fine Arts writing programmes. Oyler disdains fiction that’s described as “spare” and can’t abide the overuse of similes. She is highly particular about the authors she doesn’t like (Sally Rooney) and the authors she really doesn’t like (Jia Tolentino). She is 30, lives between Brooklyn and Berlin, and writes forensic, scathing, bugbear-filled essays and criticism for Vice, the New Yorker, the London Review of Books and everywhere in-between. Lauren Oyler is one the most prolific literary opinion-havers of her generation.