damien walter
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Literature Is a Luxury Brand
They have a swish sounding publisher. They write for the New Yorker or the Guardian. They’re overwhelmingly likely to have attended an elite university such as Oxford or Stamford. They have an MFA. It’s all indicative of one clear message:…
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Sci-Fi is the New Religion
We’re only a few centuries and a small apocalyptic event away from isolated communities of huddled believers worshipping the gospels of Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, and Le Guin….Let’s not think about L Ron Hubbard. In the Guardian, Damien Walter argues that…
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A 21st Century Literary Movement
In the Guardian, Damien Walter discusses what he thinks might be the first major literary movement of the 21st century: transrealism, the genre of literature that rejects “consensus reality.”
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YA Lit Tackles Modern Concerns
Plenty of critics have lamented the rise of Young Adult literature, but its popularity isn’t accidental. The genre is focusing on contemporary problems and, more importantly, manifesting them in easily digestible ways that appeal not just to teens, but to…