Why The Great Millennial Novel Doesn't Exist (Yet)
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On the candidates and their shortcomings.
Non Grata contributing writer Owen Yingling is quickly becoming one of the finest contemporary literary critics. In this essay he puts forth what the Great Millennial Novel should be and examines why the usual suspects fall short. It is a piece worth returning to time and time again. Every age gets the art it deserves, and every age must accept the art it gets…To say that this or that writer is a fraud may be legitimate literary criticism: to arraign a generation of writers is merely bad sociology.’ — T.S. Eliot Outside the monographs of the academic historian—which, of course, are never…
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