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An Interview with Kate Braverman - Bookslut

Literature is an evolving form. The traditional regents of the critical apparatus stayed on about 10, 15 years too long, with an apres moi, la deluge arrogant contempt. As a California writer and a woman, the traditional paradigms didn't apply to me, by geographic and socioeconomic exile in the gulag with palm trees, and I as a child of the '60s, I actually came of writing age in the '70s. The regents of the old order said no writing came out of the '60s, that Was One of the methods the Establishment employed for dismissing the revolutionary aesthetic of the '60s. In point of fact, the writing of the '60s appeared as early as 71, in Hunter S. Thompson's two great genre-demolishing books, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, in Didion's White Album, in Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, in the early work of Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Sunrise and Tom McGuane’s 92 in the Shade. They caused a literary firestorm. Hunter S. Thompson demonstrated that journalism Was not "objective,” that the genre distinctions were vestiges of an antiquated order. Garcia Marquez appeared in translation. Plath Was - More available

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