Whoa-ho-ho!
So, way back in Y2K, when I was a pup in grad school, some writer pals and I sat around and argued over the future direction of fiction. And though I loved me some dark irony back then, especially the kind only American writers were delivering, I brazenly declared the next wave to be...wait for it...wait for it...SINCERITY.Ah, the sweet smell of "I told you so."
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"Why so sad, people?" as Zadie Smith asks.
Well, it's just a habit by now. It's so ingrained in our culture that it has become an unexamined default position. What makes it much worse is that it is now being coached, reinforced. All of the writers on the Granta list attended university creative writing programmes. All, in other words, have submitted to authority. This is a catastrophe for them as novelists.
I snagged that from an article with a subhead that could be summarized as: Why do modern novels suck?
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