“In an age of avatars and digitally altered profile photos, endlessly falsified and therefore perfectible online personas, we are all invited to construct ourselves closer to what we dream of being than what we simply are. Authenticity has becomes a slippery and evasive promise, and we too are becoming constructs, selves-that-are-not-actually-ourselves.”
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“Open Secrets: Literature as Gossip in the Digital Age” on The New Inquiry