Meg Mason: ‘The term Sad Girl Lit is infuriating and minimising’
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Douglas StuartElizabeth StroutDavid SedarisRichard OsmanGeorge SaundersMartha FrielMick HerronMeg MasonNancy MitfordBonnie GarmusAnn PatchettGillian AndersonOrion Publishing CoNew ZealanderBritishSkaz, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', RussiaRussianUnited Kingdom
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Wed, 2 September 2026
1 report- the-independent.com06:00first to report
Five years after the publication of her darkly funny and touching bestseller ‘Sorrow and Bliss’, Meg Mason turns her attention to loneliness and literary obsession in ‘Sophie, Standing There’. The New Zealand author talks to Annabel Nugent about navigating reader expectations, why parasocial relationships aren’t all bad, and the real-life writers who inspired some of the hilarious moments in her new novel