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A comic’s look at dating now - Lauren Oyler - Bookforum Magazine

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A comic’s look at dating now – Lauren Oyler

How to Date Men When You Hate Men BY Blythe Roberson. Flatiron Books. Hardcover, 288 pages. $19. Purchase this book: Bookshop • Amazon Like stereotypical versions of the people the book maligns, the title of Blythe Roberson’s How to Date Men When You Hate Men makes promises it can’t keep: This is not a how-to, she doesn’t hate men, and though she sleeps around and has maintained perplexing romantic friendships, she’s not totally sure if she’s ever been on a date. The book, she explains in the introduction, is more of a political meditation on what Roberson insists is not a personal problem but

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