NOTHING TO SAY by Dan Holloway
One of the things I've heard said most often is that modern literature has nothing to say. I guess that's the thing every generation hears most. And if you were to take a look at so-called cultural indicators like the Granta 20 under 40 list, you would be excused for concurring (no, I won't link to it because my use of the conditional "if you were" is not intended as an exhortation). When I asked Rebecca Wait , author of the really very good The View on the Way Down, just out from Picador, what she thought was the greatest 21st century novel not yet written, she gave the excellent answer "I think sometimes the greatest novels are the ones that seem incredibly weird and surprising when they’re first published." Obviously, having just written a novel comprising wholly of numbers (click that pic there to download it for FREE) I was mightily encouraged to hear that. But,to be honest, I think she has explained in a nutshell why every generation has criti...