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Topic: novel

Lauren Oyler’s debut novel, “Fake Accounts,” is an incisive exploration of the internet era, exploring self-awareness and cynicism about the world of social media that the writer and readers can never fully be extricated from.

Our Own “Fake Accounts”: a debut novel for the internet era

By Cecilia Barron

February 22, 2021 0 comments

Virginia Woolf wasn’t very online. Neither was Jane Austen, nor Joan Didion. Even Zadie Smith, who started writing after the internet’s inception, has sworn off Twitter.