
Sally Rooney is trending again, and this time it's because of Taylor Swift.
As a person forced to look at Twitter as part of my job, I have heard a lot about Sally Rooney in the past. . . I want to say, two thousand years? So when her name was trending once again today, I assumed it was just because she now represents all of Book. I clicked anyway, because I am nothing if not culturally pliant.
Here is what I saw (from Entertainment Weekly):
This calls for a close-up:
As I’ve said all along, Stars! They’re just like us! Or, in the parlance of the youth, I’m Star.

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.