Long Live The Literary A-hole

The insecure men who act pretentious and the women who try to love them

Angelica Frey
Nov 4 · 7 min read

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,”…

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Angelica Frey

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I write about Art, Culture, and Fashion and I translate German and Italian into English

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