Generative Fiction: Henry James as a path for Avant-garde literature
The aesthetics of “Alt Lit” have now defined underground literary culture for almost two decades. From Tao Lin’s early-2010s internet-driven auto-fiction to recent “post-ironic” novels, the same trends are everywhere: first-person “sincerity” laced with confessional self-exposure, a heavy emphasis on online ephemera (memes, text messages, social media feeds, etc), and the insistence that “everything is live and raw right this second.”
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