generation why?

[nolemonsnomelon]

according to Time magazine, our generation is lacking an authorial voice. we have no salinger or hemingway or updike or any of the other drunken misogynist recluses great men that people tout as speaking for/to the masses.

don't fret though. its just because i haven't written MY novel yet.

just kidding.

or am i?

Comments

[matchstik]

You are... but you shouldn't be!

[nolemonsnomelon]

<333333!

ny! you should come visit my apartment & we should get some djarums and drink wine and watch Who Put the M in Manchester.

yes!

[matchstik]

That sounds awesome! When's good? This weekend maybe?

[starmiranda]

I know! I hate when people proclaim that we have no "voice of our generation," because, really, maybe we'll be the first generation where there are a multitude of diverse voices that represent us. & Really, the whole "voice of a generation" thing implies that we're all the same just because we happened to be born within the same 20 years or so, & that's crap.

xoxo

[nolemonsnomelon]

exactly! the idea of ONE VOICE (I I Individual MYSELF)is so very western isn't it? when i studied poco lit i realized how a lot of the stories happened in a more collective/ensemble atmosphere. the idea of individuals representing the whole was just not really common in much of that literature and i love that. but then i am a pomo girl at heart i think. plurality and flux and all that.

[starmiranda]

Yeah, exactly. It's very western, I think. Some of my favorite lit classes as an undergrad were postcolonial & postmodern ones. i love the idea of more diverse voices being represented & not having hemingway try to speak for everyone. ack, hemingway. i can't deny that i love a lot of the writing by the old white drunk men who dominate the canon, but i also have major problems with them, too. & yes, plurality & ambiguity & stuff like that make me really excited.

xoxo

hemingway is the worst thing to ever happen to human civilization

[prairiecity]

oh, i'm sure there's an alcoholic misogynist just lurking in the wings, waiting for the right moment to spew their hideous tripe on the world. maybe ann coulter is considering a leap into fiction?

Re: hemingway is the worst thing to ever happen to human civilization

[nolemonsnomelon]

"hideous tripe" and an "ann coulter" dig.

oh cam, i love you more with each passing alcoholic misogynist.

[bezier]

RACE YOU

[nolemonsnomelon]

1,2,3 NOT IT!

[chavvah]

What are you talking about? J.T. LeRoy is obviously the great author of our time.

*snerk*