Is she right Veeky Forums?
theatlantic.com
Cormac btfo
Ethan Garcia
Connor Long
>twilight
>Harry potter
>50 shades
>John Green
No, she obviously isn't.
William Baker
I don't know what it is she's arguing.
No one is forcing her to read contemporary literary fiction. The fiction itself is not at all popular or widely talked about.
Her obsession with them says more than anything else which just seems childish and insecure. If you truly don't care about the opinions of these circles (as I do not) then just take your liberty to ignore them (as I do)
Michael Morales
I think she's critiquing average writers being held up as good by pretentious critics. On that point, we're in an influenza.
Zachary Lee
Sometimes when someone calls another pretentious they're right.
Sometimes they're denigrating what they don't understand.
You be the judge
Brayden Barnes
>furious dabs of tulips stuttering
This isn't bad at all though
Lucas Gray
I liked this article because aside from praising Steven King et. al her taste in literary fiction was really good: therefore I trust her.
James and Melville are gods, Cormac blows
Mason Nelson
I think some of her examples are actually good, like all of Cormacs, some are pretty questionable, like your tulip example (I mean as personifcation it's okay, but I think, personally, it's a stretched metaphor), and some, like this are fucking terrible and should be slandered:
In the long unfurling of his life, from tight-wound kid hustler in a wool suit riding the train out of Cheyenne to geriatric limper in this spooled-out year, Mero had kicked down thoughts of the place where he began, a so-called ranch on strange ground at the south hinge of the Big Horns.
Cormac is the only writer whose theme suits his style and vice versa.
Lucas Barnes
(OP)
She has some good arguments but sometimes she just is being too stuck-up to realize genius.
>"Remember what happened to the father of our country. He chopped down the cherry tree, and then he said to his father, 'I cannot tell a lie.' Soon thereafter, he threw the coin across the river. These two stories are crucial events in American history. George Washington chopped down the tree and then he threw away the money. Do you understand? He was telling us an essential truth. Namely, that money doesn't grow on trees." (City of Glass)
C'mon, that's pretty fucking funny
Christopher Roberts
>she
B.R Meyers is a dude, user. And he's very right, not exactly in the specifics of his criticism - which are not wholly the point - but in his description of the masturbatory, meaningless echo chamber that is all things 'literary' today. The point is not that Don Delilo or Paul Auster churns out hack shit - it's the nonsensical pretension of the 'critics' responding to them that is Meyer's real target