Mister Prickles 🦔<p>'Some students had taken issue with the fact that I, a man, had presumed to “know” what it was like to be a teenage girl. </p><p>'I said that, however much I disagreed with the injunction to “stay in your lane” as a fiction writer ... I hadn’t violated it. The collective narration of The Virgin Suicides is an all-male affair. The boys who obsess over the Lisbon girls know little about them. Their cluelessness is the point."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/11/jeffrey-eugenides-virgin-suicides-kirsten-dunce-sofia-coppola" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2023/sep</span><span class="invisible">/11/jeffrey-eugenides-virgin-suicides-kirsten-dunce-sofia-coppola</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/JeffreyEugenides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeffreyEugenides</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a></p>