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

[jonscsymons]

I was just gonna say JT LeRoy. But Time's crazy. I always thought Bret Easton Ellis, Nick Hornby and Irvine Welsh were sort of the voices of the masses, especially Hornby. I mean, I like to think our generation cares about two things, movies and music, above everything else, and Hornby's got that going on mad.

[prairieheath]

I have nothing to say that hasn't already been said, except I LOVE me some chicken on a cracker!

[geisster]

R.L. Stine is good.

[nolemonsnomelon]

i prefer Christopher Pike or Ann M. Martin.

[matchstik]

Hahahaha Ann M. Martin... did those Baby Sitters Club graphic novels ever get released?

[sock_it_2_me]

I would say, it is less our generation but rather our culture that is lacking an authorial voice. Get on the novel, Cynara. We need you!

Isn't Salinger still alive and drinking pee? Maybe he can make a comeback.

[nolemonsnomelon]

Isn't Salinger still alive and drinking pee? Maybe he can make a comeback.

ba ha ha ha ha ha ha!

somewhere mister Jerome David just joked on his night cap of pee and he doesn't know why.

[imperfectmedium]

who needs an authorial voice anyway?

maybe the reason we're lacking such a voice is that the digital age has launched an age of multivocalization, as someone else described above. when everybody can be self-published on eljay or myspace or whatthehellever, who needs an authorial voice?