Generation Twit

New Yorker by Jenna Krajeski | Mar. 12, 2009 (Review)

You are in your early to mid-twenties and you are illiterate and disengaged, did you know that? The good news is that you finally fit in—you are part of a mostly illiterate and disengaged generation and, since your apathy likely took root in the multitudinous indignities of high school, this participation in intellectual squalor is a homecoming. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Mar 12, 2009 - 1:34 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Derek Hawkins (review), Fabrice Florin (review), Kaizar Campwala (review), Dave Rosso (review), Richard M. Armstrong (review), Randy Morrow (review), Catherine Linn (review)
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Edited by: Derek Hawkins - Mar 12, 2009 - 1:34 AM PDT

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Derek Hawkins
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 by Derek Hawkins - Mar. 12, 2009
Derek posted this story.
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Fabrice Florin
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 by Fabrice Florin - Mar. 12, 2009
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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Mar. 12, 2009
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Randy Morrow
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 by Randy Morrow - Mar. 13, 2009
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Dave Rosso
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 by Dave Rosso - Mar. 12, 2009

what was that all about?

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Catherine Linn
2.6
 by Catherine Linn - Apr. 1, 2009
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Richard M. Armstrong
4.5
 by Richard M. Armstrong - Mar. 12, 2009

I have two sons, both college graduates, one in English, and find his approach to writing to be functionally illiterate. The other son is obsessed with writers like Chuck Palahniuk. I thought enough to email it to the English major.

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