Indecision is not Indifference

Fittingly, Kunkel and others seem to have perfected the formula just as critic circles have written off “lad lit”. I mean sure, every school must deal with 9/11–new sets, new characters to populate them, old themes in new clothes (ref Wolfe, DeLillo, Roth, others)–but is the current wave simply grasping for excuses to rewrite Bright Lights, Big City? I say slack’s here to stay. Death, taxes, and slack.