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Why Don’t Dominant Generations Produce More Novelists?

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Demography Unplugged
Apr 29, 2019
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Book critic Mark Athitakis argues that there hasn’t been a household-name Millennial novel because there’s no longer room for a generational spokesperson. While he attributes this shift to cultural fragmentation, it also could be that Millennials’ diverse backgrounds and embrace of identity politics resist the notion of a single “voice of a generation.”

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