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Alt Lit | The Point Magazine

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The thing that actually matters about a scene is the work it produces. So I decided to read the work.

H ere’s a fun game we can play. I’m going to give you some quotes from a few recently published novels. Some of them are vaguely associated with an infamous downtown scene in New York. In this scene everyone’s either young or cool or beautiful, and they’re all skinny and smoke cigarettes, and they laugh at all the fussy pieties of the world, and they’re all constantly online while also constantly going to parties. According to the young, cool and beautiful people, they’re trying to find a new and authentic literary voice in an age of social and technological disintegration. They’re trying to c

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