Like the Kirsch piece, but the whole "middle aged writers unsettled by younger writers" thing isn't all that remarkable given that writers since at least Turgenev have been banging that drum. Dare I say it, but his thesis could itself be evidence of the same narcissism he references in his piece.
The Bluestocking vol 283
The only Japanese phrase I can remember is ‘Denwa bango wa nan ban desu ka’ which I never got to use in Tokyo
Like the Kirsch piece, but the whole "middle aged writers unsettled by younger writers" thing isn't all that remarkable given that writers since at least Turgenev have been banging that drum. Dare I say it, but his thesis could itself be evidence of the same narcissism he references in his piece.