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9 Sept 2020 Conversations with Tyler Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low
“I am not a literary person on any level, but I think that a certain kind of social-realist fiction writing has become unfashionable and that applies to him and his books and also to my grandfather’s books.”
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- 9 Sept 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…But that’s true about anything, right? [laughs] People need to see it. I am not a literary person on any level, but I think that a certain kind of social-realist fiction writing has become unfashionable and that applies to him and his books and also to my grandfather’s books. When you revisit your earlier musical tastes, what is your perspective? If I think of a group such as Rancid — you used to listen to them. I bought that CD. I thought it was pretty good. I listened for a while, but now I never go back to it. It just seems derivative of the Clash. I’m not opposed to their body of work, but it seems irrelevant. The music you used to like — do you feel that way about it? The Arctic Monkeys — do they contribute anything of value?…
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