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"I've seen it countless times. DFW, DeLillo, Pynchon, McCarthy, Franzen, etc., get blasted as just 'being a bunch of white males thinking they're great novelists.' Most of these guys' work isn't even controversial or about race. I just saw some top Letterboxd review of Eddington (I know, it's Letterb"
"Some post on there with a bunch of upvotes highlighted an excerpt of a Franzen novel I've read that was like, 'She was a pretty yet smart woman' and all the comments were like, 'Wow, women can't be pretty and smart??' But if you read the novel, that chapter is written from the perspective of a man i"
"Bring back the DFW/Pynchon/Brett Easton Ellis/Jonathan Franzen/Chuck Palahnhiuk wannabes."
"Now I'm in a cafe in Glasgow reading a Jonathan Franzen novel. I'll haunt this place. Come every Sunday."
"Like yea it's Brocialist lit 101 and it's not Joyce or Pynchon or even Franzen or Knausgaard."
"Different creative writing workshop. We're talking about the favorite books we've read recently. Most said new, trendy novels by women/non-white writers. I said The Corrections, and I got several dagger-like stares like I had said Mein Kampf."