Girls, girls, girls and their portrayal in art

“Because such stories exposed the private lives of male intellectuals, they got critiqued as icky, sticky memoir—score-settling, not art. (In contrast, young men seeking revenge on their exes are generally called “comedians” or “novelists” or “Philip Roth.”)”

-Emily Nussbaum over at the New Yorker in “‘Girls,’ ‘Englightenment’ and the comedy of cruelty.”

The Philip Roth bit made us laugh. For a long time.

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