Random House to publish a new George Saunders story collection; the American Academy of Arts and Letters awardees
Ayesha A. Siddiqi talks with New Inquiry editor Charlie Markbreiter about “the end of an era, its ‘main characters,’ web 2.0 & the real difference between Gen Z and Millenials.” “The last decade of fiction starring single late 20s-early 30s white women recycles different iterations of the same boring, selfish, reckless, cynical and unmoored depressive figure with a dissatisfying sex life that they organize the rest of their lives around,” Siddiqi says. “The self-sabotaging white woman is to the 20teens what the flailing dad was to 90s family comedies, an era defining trope. These women are