{"id":864,"date":"2011-04-06T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/04\/is-gen-x-an-afterthought.html"},"modified":"2011-04-06T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T17:23:00","slug":"is-gen-x-an-afterthought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/04\/is-gen-x-an-afterthought.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Gen X an Afterthought?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE new issue of MOJO<\/a> magazine has a cover story on the 25th anniversary of the Smiths’ The Queen is Dead<\/i> LP, an article on the 20th of Primal Scream’s influential Screamadelica<\/i> record, and another on a reunion tour by Mick Jones’ Big Audio Dynamite.<\/p>\n

It’s a great issue, of course, of our favorite music magazine. But it also feels like the Gen X teenage years have now been fully commodified and sold back to us.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most rabid and persuasive generational warrior I know is SoCal-reared journalist Jeff Gordiner<\/a>, who I’ve interviewed on subjects ranging from contemporary poetry to the Pavement reunion to the novels of Bret Eason Ellis.<\/p>\n

Gordinier’s book X Saves the World is well worth a look:\u00a0HERE<\/a> is my interview with Gordinier, who has recently stormed the New York Times Dining section with a batch of witty, intelligent stories including a memorable piece on veggie burgers.<\/p>\n

Here’s how my story begins:
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These days, with a recession on the way, housing prices tanking, the Dow out of control and an unpopular war that won’t seem to end, a lot of Americans are feeling uneasy and confused. Recent surveys show a majority think the nation is on what pollsters call “the wrong track.”<\/i><\/div>\n
For Jeff Gordinier, the author of the new book “X Saves the World” and an editor at large for Details magazine, it’s actually kind of reassuring.\u00a0“I find a strange degree of comfort in it,” the writer said serenely at Pasadena’s Pie ‘n’ Burger, a legendary diner near his hometown of San Marino. His Generation X origins, he said, make it hard for him to trust the good times.<\/i><\/div>\n
And here is Jeff on his book:<\/div>\n
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