Conversations with Friends and Normal People, author Sally Rooney has been hailed as one of the great chroniclers of millennial life.
Now the Irish writer, 30, has shared an eminently sensible and empathetic view of what fame is really like in 2021. For her, it’s a system that doesn’t enrich individual celebrities – only corporations. “As far as I can make out, the way that celebrity works in our present cultural moment is that particular people enter very rapidly, with little or no preparation, into public life, becoming objects of widespread public discourse, debate and critique,” Rooney told The Guardian.
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