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Selected Essays | Christian Lorentzen on George Trow

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The Importance of Gen X Writing in the New Yorker

I'm sure that he worked on this essay for a long time and that it was published with... I don't know the history of its editing and publication, but I'm sure they didn't just shove it right into the magazine. It probably underwent significant revision. Trove also, it should be... There was a certain generation of writers who came to The New Yorker who had attended Harvard University with William Sean's son. They were part of a new generation at The New Yorker that represented, to my mind, very interesting and creative flourishing that I cherish personally.

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