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Monday, July 03, 2006

Literature Today

Posted by Scott Eric Kaufman on 07/03/06 at 03:39 PM

Time magazine demands answers, slackers: “Who is the Voice of Your Generation?” Has he or she been unjustly neglected?

An impoverished idiot complains about literary theory’s infiltration of the Fed.

From literary theory to Critical Race Theory, yet she still likes T.S. Eliot.

Homer is a woman, maybe:

The idea of a woman writing The Iliad and not being bored out of her mind by the endless fighting and killings is a bit more far-fetched.

Gender essentialism? Pinker explains.

From the MFA Blog, news that The Paris Review has put all its interviews with writers online.

Blawgs win.

The government doles out $691,000 and discovers that “mindless reading” or “zoning out” impairs reading comprehension.

Wait, what?

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The “been unjustly neglected” link is broken.

[Edit: Thanks! It’s fixed now.]

By Andrew Simone on 07/03/06 at 04:15 PM | Permanent link to this comment

That MFA blog link had me momentarily excited that the 1980-present interviews were online. The news of the existence of the site itself is older than dirt.

By Jonathan Goodwin on 07/03/06 at 06:28 PM | Permanent link to this comment

Well, crap. I hadn’t gotten to the 1980-present stuff yet. Too busy digging in the older material.

That said, it was new to me, so I posted it. And I stand by my policy of considering things new to me as worthy of a post, even if they happen to pre-date dirt.

By Scott Eric Kaufman on 07/03/06 at 06:34 PM | Permanent link to this comment

Samuel Butler argued that Homer was a woman 100+ years ago. It was often impossible to tell whether Butler was kidding or not.

By John Emerson on 07/03/06 at 06:59 PM | Permanent link to this comment

I damn near threw in an “again,” but then opted with the “maybe” instead. (Also ditched a perfectly fine Book of J joke, but you can’t crack ‘em all.)

By Scott Eric Kaufman on 07/03/06 at 07:04 PM | Permanent link to this comment

What about that voice of a generation thing? I see it means the generation younger than my 46-year-old own, but still. From the UK, I was going to say Zadie Smith, and see she is mentioned. From Canada, I guess Douglas Coupland, or was he last generation? From the US, who?

By tom s. on 07/03/06 at 08:19 PM | Permanent link to this comment

I belong to Generation Y, I think, since I read Coupland’s Generation X in ninth or tenth grade. I could be mistaken. Whose responsibility is it to keep track of these things?

By Scott Eric Kaufman on 07/03/06 at 08:52 PM | Permanent link to this comment

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Monday, July 03, 2006

Literature Today

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