Did any millennials write anything of substance? All the best fiction written by people under 50 are all Gen X writers. I cannot name one Gen Y writer who is good. Tao Lin? He's a joke. But if you asked me who is the best living writer today, it would probably be Joshua Cohen, who is Gen X.
>>25085150>Did any millennials write anything of substance>All the best fiction written by people under 50 are all Gen X writers>But if you asked me who is the best living writer today, it would probably be Joshua Cohen>CohenPlease stop pretending you are interested in literature, you have no clue what literature is about at all. You need urgently to shut the fuck up and read anything on >>24337206 before posting again on the internet
>>25085157I have a PhD in Literature and Languages. I know what I am talking about.
>>25085162>credentialismYou need to rope
>>25085167You don't read as much as me. I am Dr Anon to you.
>>25085150>Joshua Aaron Cohen (born September 6, 1980)He's a 'lennial
>>25085174I genuinely can't believe a human being can brag about having a Ph.D in literature. It's literally the most shameful degree I have ever heard of. But at least Ezra Pound is a decent author. I hope you like him because you're also a turbo fascist
>>25085176He's on the cusp of Gen X and Millennial.
>>25085178>I genuinely can't believe a human being can brag about having a Ph.D in literature. Not everyone was born in a poor family like you. My family can afford upward social mobility.>It's literally the most shameful degree I have ever heard of.It depends on where you go and who you want to study with, as with anything. If I went to a low end college for Philosophy that only specialised in Analytic Philosophy and tried to do a topic on Continental Philosophy, then I'd obviously have a worse time than someone who chose the right place and people. A Literature PhD is no different. >I hope you like him because you're also a turbo fascistI don't know what you mean. How can me studying him or sticking up for myself make me a fascist?
>>25085150You need to KYS. And no, milenials are incapable of making actual art. Their morsel creative talents are put into depicting realistic panic attacks in cartoons; making stand-up comedy about muh vagaina muh women; and producing slopcasts where they eventually alienate their reddit audience by saying something a tad too edgy. Thank God we have zoomers. >inb4 malding milenials
>>25085217>Thank God we have zoomers
>If I went to a low end college for Philosophy that only specialised in Analytic Philosophy and tried to do a topic on Continental Philosophy, then I'd obviously have a worse time than someone who chose the right place and people.At least you'd come out smarter than the entire department
>>25085157>>25085167>>25085174You just got BTFO'd the hardest I've ever seen on this website in 10+ years
>>25085219Sorry, I was talking about White zoomers, the same way I imagine OP was discussing White milenials, as 99% of anything worth reading was written by a White person.
>>25085150>"""literary""" fictionInto the trash it goes.
>>25085282I realized I included one post from the doctor in there. My mistake
>>25085150>>25085162>>25085174>>25085183>>25085282>>25085290Same fucking retarded faggot.
>>25085174He wasn‘t arguing on the basis of doubt that you actually had the degree though.
>>25085150Brandon Sanderson. He literally elevated and changed the fantasy genre with his works.
>>25085217>Thank God we have zoomers.Who have created literary masterworks like…
>>25085307This. Anyone who doesn't read him belongs in a large and secure prison in a northern province of some kind.
>>25085307>>25085325Fantasy isn't really literature. Grow up retards
>>25085328True of every fantasy writer save Brandon. I would chain you to a wall and make you read him.
>>25085308I'm working on it, unc!
>>25085336ngmi
>>25085174Maybe if it was 1926 this would be an own but the humanities have made themselves an absolute joke, and having a credential from a field that pumps out attempts to "queer" Homer, or deconstruct Dante in order to make him a trans activist is deserving of no respect at all. Plus, even less militant takes coming out nowadays are absolutely trash tier because no one is trained on the actual traditions authors were formed by, only POMO garbage.
>>25085308The oldest zoomer is 28, give it time, boomelinial.
>>25085406I'm 27 and have five short stories, twice as many poems, and working on a novel this year.
>>25085406That‘s more than enough time to observe, if not a magnum opus, the incipient flowering of talent.
>>25085433Don't doubt me, oldhead!
>>25085417Based, I'm 26 and have a 2nd draft of a 90k novel and about 6 short stories (that vary in quality). Not published, though. Good luck, fellow zoomer.>>25085433Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there. As I said, be patient. Milenials fucked up the publishing industry anyhow by making it revolve around blacks and women and gays, so a straight white author has next to 0% chance of getting published unless he has some kind of connection to the industry, like Gabe Smith. This isn't cope, it's a fact. But we already see an effort being placed into getting male writers back into the public light, like that one publisher who wanted to publish only men (which causes untold levels of seethe from women). There's no doubt some talented young zoomers will begin to stand out soon enough.
Why do zoomcucks blame millennials for everything under the sun when its boomers and gen x who have and are holding executive power in every single field?
>>25085150>All the best fiction written by people under 50 are all Gen X writers.Pretty much. You really only have a few good cartoons or video games written by boomerlennials. Other than that, nothing.
>>25085456I would probably complain about culture war noise instead of writing too if my template for somebody who got through the cracks was Brat.
>>25085553Nobody blames them for everything under the sun we blame them for being cringe (which is true).
>>25085602Yet you came crawling to a millennial site.Curious!
>>25085602>they give me the ickD&C really took a toll on you.
>>25085174Post your thesis
>>25085150>Did any millennials write anything of substance? TODAY I WILL REMIND THEM
Behead All Satans
>>25085417Keep at it, writers peak at or after middle age
>>25085653Born 83, so just under
>>25085456>Milenials fucked up the publishing industry anyhow by making it revolve around blacks and women and gaysnta but >>25085553 is right and a lot of White men where not hired/promoted to make way for Blacks/Woman/Gays right at the time "Milenials" were trying to start their careers. This article form two mouths ago got a lot of attention form right wing circles because a lib-cuck admitted he was discriminated against for his sex/race, but accepted it like the cuckholed he is. Worth a read.https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/>>25085553I think it was someone that made a parody of a bad pop song form the 2010's on TicToc and the man-kids decided the Hipsters where a good target for ridicule. I've noticed that they will lash out at anyone form a gen-label older than them. It started with "Boomers" but after that TicToc meme, it shifted to "millennials" probably because you can't b8 that many people older than that online.A bigger mystery for me is why so many people treat the year they were born as a personality trait or their identity.
>>25087739>A bigger mystery for me is why so many people treat the year they were born as a personality trait or their identity.It's an interesting phenomenon. I guess it is, at least in part, due to the death of the recognizable subculture. People are running out of things to define themselves by so they latch on to whatever they can. This is further fueled by memes and random social media nonsense. Of course, this being 4chan, it's easy to just dismiss any group you don't like as "those people" and send an emotional, angry outburst of text at them before hiding the thread and thinking a victory of some kind has been won.
>>25085176Nepos don't count
>>25085150Considering that millennials are now in their 30s and early 40s, this is the moment when they are likely beginning to publish their second or third novel. None of them has had the time to be considered an establish author.As a published millennial novelist (third novel incoming next year), I can tell you that at least in my country of origin, millennials are beginning to establish themselves in these years, as a generation - but it takes times. Anyone who writes seriously and have been published for long enough will be able to drop three or four names of the best millennial authors in my country, or at least the most promising ones. I'm not as much in the know when it comes to anglophone culture, but I'd suspect things to go pretty much the same way. Which suggests that you likely do not read a lot of your contemporaries or do not keep an eye on what is coming out, or you'd know that critical consensus around authors their age is not yet established.If you truly have a PhD, you could contribute establishing the discourse by actually reading some millennial novels and writing about them. I think it would be a good way to figure out if they are good at all. But you clearly need to read more, PhD or not, and /lit/ isn't the right place to find out more about young authors.
>>25085150The millennials who had a good head on their shoulders went into web originals, indie games, etc. The uncreative/nepo/DEI ones went to traditional publishing.>>25087904>As a published millennial novelist (third novel incoming next year)Literally the most biased person on the subject.
>>25087923Vidya games and web originals aren't good though. Millennials can't make art.
>>25085150"Millennial literature" does not exist. Because excluding an entire gender and an entire race from literature ensures that generation has no literary movement. Feminist literature exists. Romantasy literature exists. Marginalized voice literature exists. Tranny literature exists. Jewish pity party literature exists. But there's no such thing as millennial literature. Gen X was the last generation before the gates were slammed shut and locked.
millennials whine like bitches constantly. no wonder their boomer parents low key despised the little faggots
>>25085294Nope
>>25089328>9 gorillion hours in photoshopSad!
>>25089338You got shit on. Just take the loss and stop refreshing the thread
>>25085150the husband stitch. a woman narrates her whole life, courtship to children to aging, with a green ribbon around her neck she asks her husband never to untie. he does. machado takes the urban legend & makes it do what fiction is supposed to do: the ribbon is what women keep for themselves that men can't stop reaching for. national book award finalist. carmen maria machado, born 1986.lockwood built a novel that works like a feed for 120 pages & then breaks. her sister's baby is born with a condition incompatible with life & the internet disappears from the book the way it disappears from a room where someone is dying. tonal collapse as formal argument. booker shortlist, 2021.ling ma wrote the pandemic novel before the pandemic. severance: shen fever turns people into zombies who keep doing their routines, commuting & folding laundry & setting tables for nobody. horror isn't the disease. horror is that the disease looks exactly like the job. 2018.canons take thirty years to settle (we're at fifteen). gen x writers are getting canonized now because they've been publishing that long.cohen was born in 1980. pew puts the millennial cutoff at 1981. gen x by twelve months. (come to think of it, they're all women, we might be in real trouble, /lit)
Well I'm 39 and I'm hard at work on a considerable story. I got told to self-publish it because it's too long and too weird for traditional publishing so I'm putting it out on a website. Just started in January.I've also gotten about a dozen poems and half a dozen short stories published.
>>25089452Pandemic the board game predicted the pandemic and that zombie movie with Simon pegg did the zombie job joke. The first one is just changing the ribbon color and mansplaining the allegory. The middle one sounds interesting until you remember we grew up without internet (and didn't have any respect for death or dying) it's more like commentary on YouTube culture saying unalived and thinking that's all there is to this internet while mistaking it for respect. Not that I'm not going to read all three, but when you describe them it's like saying "it's this book about whales"
>>25085150The majority of millennial writers have never been published because of political reasons.
>>25089579Then read share and purchase self published works. Go on ao3 and see what stuff people are making
>>25085150Of course not.
I need to learn how to make a website
>>25089691It's very easy. Just build one from scratch with some basic HTML, CSS, and maybe JS for functionality. Publish over github pages and buy a domain for 10-15 bucks a year.Now, getting literally anyone to ever visit is a different matter. It's fun, however, so might as well.
>>25085150I'm sure a few hidden gems here are still to be discovered by a larger readership
>>25085150The best millennial writers are all women so you cannot engage in discussion here about them.
>can't get published because i'm maleMillennial males have found a really excellent cope and excuse for not being able to write worth a shit.
>>25085178>calls poet author>thinks hes smart or belongs here
>>25085150I'm working on it
>>25085150Lena Dunham, Rebecca Sugar and Toby Fox are the most important millennial writers. Public engagement with writing during the millennial generation came from TV shows and video games, not books or magazines.
