![]() ![]() Malcolm Harris: What made you want to write about this set of conflicts in particular?ĭaniel Torday: I kind of came at this novel from two separate disparate spaces. Harris and Torday spoke over email about generational conflict, Karl Marx, and the resonances (and divergences) between their books. In Daniel Torday’s new novel, Boomer1, thirty-something academic Mark Brumfeld is forced by debt and lack of work to move back into his parents’ basement, where he goes viral recording videos that rail against Baby Boomers’ stranglehold on the job market. Malcolm Harris’s Kids These Days is a nonfiction account of the dire straits so many millennials find themselves in today: maligned as entitled and lazy, millennials are poorer and more precariously employed than their parents and grandparents all while facing a shrinking social safety net. ![]()
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