Here is a Mad Lib for the second wave of Sally Rooney discourse.
Did you hear that a new Sally Rooney novel will be published in September? Personally, I am [HYPERBOLIC ADJECTIVE]. I [FEELINGS VERB] Sally Rooney’s novels because they’re easy and enjoyable to read. She writes in the tradition of [THIN, WHITE WOMAN WRITER], which I think is [VALUE ADJECTIVE].
As an aficionado of literary fiction, I can tell you, without hesitation, that Rooney’s books, with their focus on romantic relationships, are exactly like those of [WRITER], whose books, as we all know, have long been considered [LITERARY GENRE].
I thought Conversations with Friends was [COMPARATIVE VALUE ADJECTIVE] than Normal People because of my feelings about Marxism.
Of course, Sally Rooney is very popular, which as a lover of books I think is a(n) [ADJECTIVE] thing. And as a writer myself, the success of another writer makes me feel [STRONG EMOTION].
All in all, I think Sally Rooney is the [NOUN] of a generation, and no matter what anyone feels about her books, there’s no denying that they’re the perfect thing to photograph with a [KIND OF VASE].
Jessie Gaynor
Jessie Gaynor is a senior editor at Lit Hub whose writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, The Glow was published by Random House in 2023. You can buy it here.
