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How do I become the voice of a generation?
Pic unrelated.

>> No.7173992

have something to say to, about, and from your generation

>> No.7173995

There's so much truth in that statement

>> No.7174005

>>7173995

so much SINCERITY

>> No.7174181

>>7173987
challenge convention i suppose

nobody what's to hear the grass is green or the sky is blue

>> No.7174186

>>7173987
>goo-prone

Only if you're a woman or a gay.

>> No.7174255

>>7174186
XD

>> No.7174361

You have to be really young. Tao Lin is already the voice of the present generation. I'm serious too. I realized he was the voice of my generation when I started slipping so easily and pleasantly into imitating him, but actually it wasn't imitation because I was doing something like that before he took it further and made it his style. His style is the depressed brain voice of young people today. Source: I'm a young person.

>> No.7174377

>>7174181
>nobody what's to hear the grass is green or the sky is blue

I think we kind of do, actually. It's been over a century now that so-called artists go on about how the grass and the sky are whatever color you want them to be and shit. I think the voice of our generation will be people who try to reinstall conventions.

>> No.7174397

It's superior imho to pretend to be above such animalistic authenticity, doesn't matter what kind of pretention.
So glad this garbageman offed himself

>> No.7174400

>>7174255
XD-ing is pretty insincere

>> No.7174406

Insincerity is a good thing

>> No.7174412

>>7174361
>le autistic new york chinaman

most people in the US, not to mention the world, are completely unaware of his existence.

>> No.7174413

>>7174377
No, plenty of novelists today are writing those kinds of novels. It hasn't been outdated (or even gone) long enough to be radical. A refreshing "return to basic principles" isn't what's happening right now. In fact, that conservative stuff that's still hanging around is being criticized by guys like David Shields.

>> No.7174428

Also I think that guy meant: don't state the obvious, not avoid conventions of the literary novel.

>> No.7174432
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>>7174412
>>le autistic new york chinaman

holy shit my sides

>> No.7174433

>>7173987
He speaks like a teenage girl.

>> No.7174438

There is more "cognitive work", if you believe in that, in being cynical/processed emotional outlet than in just letting it out...
"Just letting it out" isn't even possible

>> No.7174671

What's so great about Tao Lin? Like, honestly. I started reading his stuff some while ago and it was terribly boring.

>> No.7174684

>>7174671
It's a con.

People praise as great or good because they think they should. It's a sort of intellectual Mexican stand-off with thousands of people, none of whom dare to lower their gun (their hipness facade) and admit that Tao Lin is a bum.

>> No.7174686

>>7174005
so much IRONY

>> No.7174711
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7174711

>be New Sincere
>kill self because so pathetic
>expect others to also be New Sincere

>> No.7174719

>>7174671
Nothing is great about him, if he didn't spend so much time on here shitposting about himself, to the point where he's now a meme, he wouldn't be read by anyone.

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>>7174711
>implying St. DFW wasn't martyred by the illuminati
>implying the "suicide" wasn't just a cover-up

>> No.7174856

>>7174684
Dude, he's genuinely good, and I would be the first one to tell you he sucks if I thought he sucks. On this board, or anywhere that's not Brooklyn, there is nothing to be gained by pretending you like Tao Lin.

>> No.7176729

>have a voice
>have a generation to be part of

Kind of easy, anon.

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>>7173987
You don't want to be the voice of your generation. I had a writing professor who was hailed as such in numerous publications when he was a young man in the 60s.

You've never heard of him, I guarantee it.

Eventually your generation just isn't that interesting anymore and someone else takes what you did and makes it more compelling and you fall off the map.

>> No.7177136

>>7174377
I read a LOT of poetry around the web.
If you don't have something to say about nature that makes me audibly laugh or twists my brain in some way, just stfu with your descriptions

>> No.7177325

>>7177003
>39
>young adult