Cirrus@Austlit

'It’s a tall order to critique the very thing you are creating as you’re creating it. In the wake of Sally Rooney’s dominance over—for want of a better descriptor—‘women’s literary fiction’, perhaps it’s now de rigueur for the white millennial author to interrogate why we all write what we write. The most famous investigation into the ‘literary sad girl’ still comes from Leslie Jamison, who ruminates on the impact of her own memoir The Recovering, and explores many of these women across history.' (Introduction)