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Hanya Yanagihara

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Author of A Little Life who has power in the publishing industry, criticized for writing a 'god-awful book' that was nonetheless critically praised.

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"The most popular 'booktubers' in the Anglosphere are millennials who are very very conversant in the field of YA, problematise YA books, collect hardback copies of YA books, etc. If it isn't this then it's graphic novels or a few token volumes of the most middlebrow literary fiction possible (Rooney"
The Chinese online bookosphere and its consequences · u/scarlet3mpress · ↑102 · 2022-03-10
"The author Hanya Yanagihara wrote a god-awful book called A Little Life. It was critically praised upon initial release partly because the author has power in the publishing industry."
Hanya Yanagihara and Migos · u/Breadfrog10 · ↑91 · 2024-09-05
"after putting "a little life" by yanagihara on hold at the library and finally receiving it after 3 months i'm…… really surprised that this book is held in such high regard???? i've only read the first few pages but i honestly can't imagine it getting any better because the style and content is so o"
"A Little Life" is really bad???? · u/Shot_Tumbleweed_3827 · ↑50 · 2021-08-22
"Anyone read a little life by hanya yanagihara"
Anyone read a little life by hanya yanagihara · u/3valia · ↑22 · 2020-11-25
"Absurd torture porn that seems to have taken the premise of *Martyrs* seriously and hopes to bestow upon the audience a greater appreciation of life by making them sit and watch as the soft-hearted, waifish gay male protagonist is exposed to a gauntlet of increasingly bleak horrors."
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara · u/arthouse2k2k · ↑20 · 2022-07-25
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