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fromThe New Yorker
1 day agoBriefly Noted Book Reviews
A blackly comic tale of an envious writer's moral descent for success; a diaristic novella examines contemporary anxieties and fading practices amid political turmoil.
Earlier this month, I kept picking up and putting down Lily King's new novel, Heart the Lover. I love King's writing but the opening section was hard for me to take not in a grisly Cormac McCarthy or scary Stephen King kind of way but in an "Ugh, I remember being that girl, that age" kind of way. Heart the Lover opens in a college class of the 1980s.