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Bright Young Things
May. 3rd, 2025 09:52 am I've just read an article by Alan Hollinghurst in which he admits to being 70. And there I was I thinking of him as one of the literary world's bright young things. It took me a little aback.
Not a bright young thing at all but a literary lion nearing the end of his career- a member of my own generation.
So who are the bright young things?
I run through the contemporary writers I've read and like- or at least have read about and think I might like- and almost all of them are clocking on a bit (I can think of one exception.) This also takes me aback.
Do bright young things still publish novels or are they all working in television?
Or am I just hopelessly out of touch?
Not a bright young thing at all but a literary lion nearing the end of his career- a member of my own generation.
So who are the bright young things?
I run through the contemporary writers I've read and like- or at least have read about and think I might like- and almost all of them are clocking on a bit (I can think of one exception.) This also takes me aback.
Do bright young things still publish novels or are they all working in television?
Or am I just hopelessly out of touch?
