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What’s her political perspective? It reads centrist-absurdist or at least deeply satirical but her interview’e say boilerplate leftist. Her character “blondine” hilariously[?] fashions herself after an 11th century literal martyr because she was used as a fucktoy by a shitty narcissistic HS teacher twice her age, imagines a Patersonesque (WCW) facsimile of her poisoned town as her nervous system, wants to “fuck his piano”. Obvious satire, probably ironic autofiction. And yet her interviews are 2021 Twitter pablum.

She has a 50 yo man child who’s identity is wrapped around his narcissistic mother call up (technically he answered her concerned call over his mother’s death) his ex and berate her for regularly bringing up at parties Peter singers negative responsibility argument. That argument is often used as a reductio against the #covidisntover moral fanatics who say those ‘reckless and callous’ enough to go shopping and eat at restaurants aren’t ‘pragmatic’ or are ‘murderers’ if they’re histrionic/borderline. But in her interview she says she put that in there against those who fallaciously claim ‘because we can’t save everyone, we needn’t save anyone’.

Is anyone saying that? Is she just covering her tracks? She reads Sean Carroll for fun, the satire feels objective, sensible, funny. Am I just projecting that on to the text? Her thanks for the justice, ‘kindness wins, love wins tonight’ disaster of a national book award acceptance speech sounded so insincere. Sure she was flustered but what inveterate progressive doesn’t have a go-to marginalization speech?

Anyone have any takes on this book? Also, the sex scenes had pussys, not vaginas…

>> No.21336143

Has anyone even read her book?

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>> No.21336148

>>21336112
Yeah, I have 200 books in my backlog but let me find some time to read this roastie book, I'm really interested in her Twitter politics and sex journaling.

>> No.21336204

>>21336112
Has anyone even read her book?

>> No.21336213

>>21336148
You don’t read.

>> No.21336245

Think of the previous winners of the National Book Award and then ponder this individual standing on top of the same mountain as some of them.

>> No.21336282

>>21336245
Was there even a better option this year? You pretty much have to award it to woke, but at least she knows, she’s reached a level of irony about it, knows she’s the product of an arrogant dogmatic prejudice minting outrage porn obsessed hypocritical machine. Maybe that’s why she won over some indigenous author.

>> No.21336304

>>21336245
What’s wrong with her winning?

>> No.21336307

>>21336112
I wanna Tess her Gunty if you comprehend my euphemism.

>> No.21336567

So I guess no one reads award winners

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bros.....

>> No.21336725

>>21336567
why would anyone care about award winners?

>> No.21336912

>>21336720
thassa man!

>> No.21336927

>>21336112
Why would I care about her political perspective?
>>21336245
Plenty of winners were essentially nobodies when they first won it.

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>>21336112
>What’s her political perspective?