![]() ![]() I can make a strong case for beginning with it. ![]() But her acknowledgment, in the essay, of a “taste for ritualized, abstract interpersonal aggression” provides a better insight into her habits of mind than any I could manufacture. Maybe it’s unfair, then, to begin an article about her by citing a stray piece of personal nonfiction. ![]() Rooney’s fiction is largely concerned with the power dynamics of social groups. Rooney gave her a manuscript, which, a month later, Bohan sent to publishers. Do you have any material you’d like to share?” Bohan recalled. “I said, I know you write fiction as well. An agent, Tracy Bohan, of the Wylie Agency, saw the piece and got in touch with Rooney. “I wrote it with a confident sense of my own anonymity,” she told me. In “ Even if You Beat Me,” the 2015 essay that launched her career, Rooney looked back on her time as the “number one competitive debater on the continent of Europe.” The essay is excellent, but Rooney now sort of wishes she hadn’t written it, seeing it as an inadvertent overshare. ![]() “I was Remain, like any sensible person,” she answered. I asked what she made of Corbyn’s lukewarm support for Europe in the run-up to the Brexit vote. ![]()
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