From: "kat love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> yes, girlfriend in a coma sucked (despite all the smiths references) and
> generation x was damn good. but didn't anyone read Microserfs? i love that
> one.
> (sorryjack ;p)
You and yr Coupland. I think Coupland should be exterminated - but
Leyner is definitely pretty good. Leyner has a strong Burroughs
influence and more of a sense of self-deprecation about him, whereas
Coupland is like the gen-x equivalent of Annie Dillard.
As far as modern writers... Irvine Welsh is fantastic... Tom Robbins is
still good... and then you have Neal Stephenson, Orson Scott Card, and
William Gibson, who are usually called "science fiction" writers but
really their work is also most definitely literature - especially
Gibson. Very few books have painted as perfect a picture of This Is Who
We Are as his novel "Mona Lisa Overdrive".
But when you get right down to it, Miller's Tropic of Cancer is really
where it's all at, and no one has done better yet.
np:Jessamine, "22:30"
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