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I spent the weekend catching up on Boulevard’s past few issues. It’s one of the few literary journals that can both fascinate and enrage me in a handful of pages. Someone’s stylistic departures leave me reeling; a page later I’m bolted upright and shaking my fist. From Boulevard #68/69’s Symposium: Writers and Readers Under 35:
“This is the most passive, confused, disoriented, malingering, abstract, ignorant, brainwashed, unified, coddled, meaningless American generation ever, and it shows in its reading and writing. It is also the most tolerant, self-sufficient, understanding, empathetic, multicultural, uplifted, vocal, articulate, knowing, ironic, sensible, pragmatic, disciplined, ambidextrous, wholesome generation on record. The two tendencies exactly cancel each otherout. Its strengths are the mirror image of its failings…” -Anis Shivani.
Shivani goes on like this for five pages. Just thought you’d like to know…