The Digest: Two fools, one engagement

In her burned-in-my-brain special Get On Your Knees, Jacqueline Novak uses her teenage sex life to catapult into philosophic ponderings on the charade of presentation.

When a friend’s older sister’s friend, who names herself “The Blowjob Queen,” offers advice to the group, Novak recoils at her lack of self-awareness. Novak lives in a bifurcated state with conflicting generative and critical egos:

I fear that if I’m confident, I may turn into what I think of as The Two Fools. Okay, so if I like my...