I suspect that’s because US film has mostly shed its Gen X/early Millenial indie hangover (chief exponents/heirs of that scene, like Swanberg, Duplasses etc have all moved to TV) but literature’s equivalent is still weighing it down
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Didn't Self say the exact same thing a decade ago?
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It was "for real" in 2014 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/02/will-self-novel-dead-literary-fiction …
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And I would have got away with it if it weren't for you meddling Modernists!
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Self bloviating again
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Trouble is, the political reality show going on at the moment leaves one little able to read absurd plot lines critically.
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Not the first time Self has trotted out the line. I guess the desired response is “must buy more novels! Oh look, Will has one out now"
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Ah, Jeet. Please don’t pretend like you actually read literary criticism. You don’t and pretend like you do (with historiography too), so maybe just don’t talk about things you actually don’t know about.
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Dude writes everything on a manual typewriter.
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