Lauren Oyler

Lauren Oyler (born 1990 or 1991) is an American author and critic. Her debut novel, Fake Accounts, was published in February 2021.

Early life and education Oyler was born and raised in Hurricane, West Virginia, where she attended Hurricane High School and was named a National Merit Scholar. She graduated in 2012

Career After graduating, Oyler moved to Berlin where she worked as a freelance copy editor. In 2015 she moved to New York City to become an editor at Broadly, the now-defunct site on gender and identity for Vice. The New Yorker, The Baffler, and The New York Review of Books, among others. Her negative review of Jia Tolentino’s essay collection Trick Mirror generated so much traffic that it crashed the London Review of Books website. In a review for Bookforum, Ann Manov criticized Oyler for overusing her personal experiences in her writing. Manov also criticized Oyler for using Google and Wikipedia instead of original research, which Sheila Heti also noted in an interview with Oyler.

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