get it together!
I am SO SO UPSET about the state of the hippest of the hippest literary scene. there is nothing new or interesting about it, if keith gessen and his new book are any indication at all. what I saw today at his reading was nothing more than the same ol’ same ol’: self-involved, boring faction in which women are objects, men are caricatures, writing is the subject, and the writing does nothing but nod to its foreFATHERS.
now, I don’t believe in “doing justice to your literary foreparents” as a good goal for literature. it should be newer and more exciting than that. that aside, though, I don’t think that all the sad young literary masturbators… er… men… comes anywhere even close to doing justice to bellow, roth, balzac, and their venerable be-testicled ilk.
sorry to be vulgar but i feel strongly that we young writers need to get it together and shake off the ingrown mantles of literature today. which means I should get off the blog and write.
oh, and sorry for mixing metaphors. ;)
