A lot of Beautiful World is composed of emails that the two main characters send to each other, and one of them (dare I say it doesn’t really matter which?) writes: in the midst of everything, the state of the world being what it is, humanity being on the cusp of extinction, here I am writing another email about sex and friendship. Not only is she the world’s most famous popular literary author, she's also creating exactly the kinds of novels I would want to write if I ever managed to write a novel: heavy on dialogue and focused on the knotty personal interactions between 2-4 people, as if those are the only things that matter. I’m fundamentally jealous of Sally Rooney. As an experiment, we're including a betting market with this post: will Sally Rooney's next novel be stylistically similar to her first three? Bets are in fake internet points, not real money: bet here.
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