
Generation Why?: Do We Need "Generations?"
New Books in Literary Studies
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The Voice of the Millennial Generation
After the publication of his first novel, Private Citizens in 2016, reviewers started calling him the voice of the millennial generation. Tony Toulate-Mute: "I would have really recoiled in horror if I thought that I was trying to speak for anybody besides me and a couple of people that I know" What's the value of generations? Who gets to define them? And are they even real? To investigate, we spoke to Neil Howe, an author, demographer, and generation consultant.
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