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I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.

Ben Lerner
Thinking, Contemporary Fiction, Literature
"Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.