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“She doesn’t care much for school, but she loves writing.”
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“I feel a kinship, now, to these women; we belong to a rich literary history.”
“Only later can you parse out fact and fiction, memoir and story and narrative.”
“After all, McCurdy has candidly drawn from her own age-gap affair.”
“This thing that happened to me —but such a construction removes my own agency, doesn’t it?”
“In one excerpt from the forthcoming publication of these texts, Ernaux writes: “Do I only want to talk about myself now?”
“Here’s an example: I first pitched this piece in March, upon the initial release of Jennette McCurdy’s novel.”
“Draft after draft, you read it back.”
“Half His Age follows Waldo, an independent teenage girl with a complicated relationship to her mother.”
“Korgy waxes poetic about his own artistic influences, as older men are wont to do, he cites F.”
“For years afterward, I found myself drawn to these stories, so powerful is the gravitational pull of this canon.”
“I spent ten years struggling to understand myself, why my naïveté appealed to an older man.”
“Words failed, or felt false.”
“I always thought of desire as a form of power, an exertion of force over things in the world.”
“I had never written about my own experience except in the most elliptical sense.”