Author(s): Jeff Gordinier

Philosophy

In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive amanifesto for a generation thatas never had much use for manifestos, a Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the aSmells Like Teen Spiritabreakthrough of the early 1990s, Gen X has what it takes to rescue American culture from a state of collapse. Over the past twenty years, the so-called aslackersahave irrevocably changed countless elements of our cultureafrom the way we watch movies to the way we make sense of a cracked political process to the way the whole world does business. Review: aI loved this book. . . . Itas impassioned, very quick on its feet, dense with all the right allusions, funny, and in the end actually very moving.a
aNick Hornby
aEver wonder what became of Generation X, those ironic slackers wedged between the paunchy, tie-dyed boomers and their smug offspring, the millennials? Gordinieras first-person manifesto starts with a thumbnail sketch of a90s disillusionment and ends with a passionate call for social activism.a
a"Wired"