tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983372.post7735006255306077505..comments2023-11-05T04:04:12.442-05:00Comments on Short Schrift: Reading In A World Of Your OwnTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026955797817424956noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983372.post-65796759712151653622007-03-13T16:16:00.000-04:002007-03-13T16:16:00.000-04:00"There has been no substantial contribution of the..."There has been no substantial contribution of the baby boomers to art or literature on anywhere near the scale of the generation preceding them."<BR/><BR/>Wow, that sounds vaugely familliar.<BR/><BR/>Still, I think it may be worwhile to start answering the question of who the Boomer writers are, if only to demonstrate that there aren't many of consequence.<BR/><BR/>So who are the Boomer writers? Richard Ford? Edward P. Jones? Is it possible, in a counterintuitive sense, that the Boomers are still to young to have produced their great writer? After all, even most of the people who we consider our great "contemporary" writers—Roth, Morrison, Updike, Raymond Carver—were born in the 1930s. Are the young turks all Xers, or are there a few people who still might make their way into the pantheon from the "generation" born roughly between, say, 1945 and 1964?Gavinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09902304588711972110noreply@blogger.com