How to win friends and influence people
On self-improvement literature and Sally Rooney
Millennial Careerism
Bookforum recently held a fun/depressing talk on careerism in American letters, fun because it put a name to something you intuited, depressing for the same reason. It also felt like the second act of a longer conversation about whether American novelists have become politically and/or morally performative—whether they try to seem l…