Mary Gaitskill, "College Town, 1980"

Depressed college dropouts sit around hating themselves.

(from Don’t Cry)

These people are so annoying. A story like this should have some jokes in it, so the reader knows the author knows that these people suck. But the story wasn’t funny. It was plodding and lame and I don’t know why I read to the end.

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