“It-girl” Novelists’ Masculine Revisions

When The Guest took the Hamptons by storm, many considered Emma Cline to have crafted the book of the summer. “People scour the pages to catch a glimpse of a version of their neighbors, their wealth, and maybe themselves,” Curbed reported. Yet online brands and disinterested literati reduced Cline’s harrowing tale of a sex worker trying to stay on the straight and narrow while battling a pill addiction to hot girl literature. It’s not clear if this is fair to Cline, whose stories regularly appear in The New Yorker and has been named a Best Young American Novelist by Granta.