The world needed another "Why I Quit My Job" piece by a millennial, so without further ado ...

It was a legit question. I'm failing to see why this has raised your hackles so much.

 

I told you. Because it's hacky.

Do you realize what an overdone genre this is at this point?

 

OK. So?

 

You could make a pretty good living being an "I quit my job" ghostwriter.

 

Dick, she's an author, right? This is her first book -- but it is blessed by Oprah and the "Eat Pray Love" woman as the next big thing. She also appears to have extensive magazine credits including for travel writing, which is nothing if not self-indulgent.

She fits into a whole genre that consists of self-reflection and basking in one's own importance. It would stand to reason that a piece in the New York Times would follow suit.

 

Correct. As I understand it, in her spare time, she luxuriates in paperweights shaped as constellations.

 

Female Friends Spend Raucous Night Validating The Living Shit Out Of Each Other

 

I just saw that piece yesterday (though I think it's old). There's definitely truth.

But as to the second part of what I said, which you didn't quote -- why is she writing it? Because a lot of women eat it up. We would have saved a lot of trees by banning men from writing about their ballpark tours too.

 

Lawyers are assholes. It's a known fact. If the unnamed asshole lawyer didn't say exactly what is written here, I'm sure it's close enough.

Who knows, maybe this Generation Xer didn't say exactly what she has written that she said.

She's probably more to the truth than you are, calling her a millennial.

 

Forget it, Franzen's rolling.

 

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Again: The problem isn't that she didn't quote him with precise accuracy, although we seem to be more forgiving of that when what is actually used validates our biases.

The problem is that what she did write is not how people actually talk. It's a caricature. It's hackery. It would be laughed out of a Hollywood slush pile.

It's not "close enough" at all.