PositiveThe Adroit JournalOyler is quick to establish a picture of the world in which social media has made everyone vain and performing one’s own anxieties online has become the norm ... Living in New York as a twenty-something year old employed in the media, in a role that is not exactly creative but somewhat adjacent to it, the kind of unspoken, tacit assumption seems to be that there is always some larger personal project stewing in the background—a novel, a play, a film, etc.—which is what sustains one’s ability to submit to the alienating world of corporatism and the bastardization of one’s craft. Oyler’s narrator embodies this well ... There’s something of the ethos of a Beckett for the social media age in Oyler’s treatment of narrative voice in Fake Accounts ... everything might be ruined, but it’s a rare reminder that the novel need not be.
