Long Live The Literary A-hole
The insecure men who act pretentious and the women who try to love them
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7 min readNov 4, 2019
Right after having sex with her boyfriend for the first time, Elle*, a writer who was 20 at the time, asked him if he wanted to read something she had written. “Honestly, I’m terrified of reading your work and learning if you’re a terrible writer because I won’t want to sleep with you anymore,”…
