Sad girls everywhere know that Rachel Cusk, author of the categories-be-dammed Outline trilogy who proclaimed to The New Yorker last year “I don’t think character exists anymore,” did not ...

Clark was inspired instead by the 1992 murder of Suzanne Capper, whose death coincided with the much higher-profile murder of ... often referred to as a “sad girl novelist” and her work ...

Think of any “sad girl” in a film. You know the one: she wears baggy jeans and band T-shirts, slams doors and sits alone in canteens. And she’s almost always reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia ...