Colson Whitehead Hates Da Kids

The next time we see Colson Whitehead, we’re buying him a beer. The Brooklyn-based writer just wrote the best takedown of the McSweeney’s generation we’ve ever seen:

It’s changed a lot. As you may have heard, all the writers are in Brooklyn these days. It’s the place to be. You’re simply not a writer if you don’t live here. Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it? People are coming in from all over.

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