/lit/ - Literature

Serious question. I don't read much fiction by young authors so I decided to google "best Millennial authors" and see what came up. I googled the authors on the list and EVERY fucking one had an MFA in creative writing. I flipped open one of the novels mentioned and found pic related. It had FOUR pages of glowing reviews, everyone from NPR to the Village Voice, and then... this is the opening paragraph? Fucking really? Is this our fate? A generation of over-educated, referential writers creating meta-fiction for other writers because normal people don't even care about reading anymore? And this guy certainly isn't the only offender. I would rather read Franzen. These are dark times indeed.