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Offbeat generation

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The Offbeat generation was a loose association of like-minded writers working across different styles but united by their opposition to a mainstream publishing industry driven by marketing departments. [1]

19 relations: Adelle Stripe, Arena (magazine), Beat Generation, Ben Myers, Brutalists, Chemical generation, Gavin James Bower, HP Tinker, Lee Rourke, Less Than Zero (novel), Marcel Proust, Myspace, Noah Cicero, Tao Lin, The Guardian, Tom McCarthy (novelist), Tony O'Neill, Travis Jeppesen, 3:AM Magazine.

Adelle Stripe

Adelle Stripe is a poet and novelist from Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.

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Arena (magazine)

Arena was a British monthly men's magazine.

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Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.

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Ben Myers

Benjamin Myers (born 1976, Durham) is an English writer and journalist (as Ben Myers).

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Brutalists

Brutalism is a literary movement formed in 2006 by three writers from the north of England (Tony O'Neill, Adelle Stripe and Ben Myers), and may have been the first literary movement to be launched via the social networking site Myspace where it announced itself with the following manifesto: "Brutalism calls for writing that touches upon levels of raw honesty that is a lacking from most mainstream fiction.

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Chemical generation

The Chemical Generation refers to a collection of writers in the 1990s who added a literary dimension to the hedonistic ecstasy culture of the era.

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Gavin James Bower

Gavin James Bower (born 28 October 1982 in Lancashire) is a British writer, lecturer and editor.

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HP Tinker

HP Tinker (born 24 May 1969) is a Manchester-based short story writer of comic avant garde fiction.

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Lee Rourke

Lee Rourke is the author of the short-story collection EVERYDAY, the novel THE CANAL (winner of the Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize 2010) and the poetry collection VARROA DESTRUCTOR.

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Less Than Zero (novel)

Less Than Zero is the debut novel of Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1985.

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Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922), known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.

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Myspace

Myspace (stylized as MySpace) is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.

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Noah Cicero

Noah Cicero (born 1980) is an American novelist, short-story writer.

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Tao Lin

Tao Lin (born July 2, 1983) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Tom McCarthy (novelist)

Tom McCarthy (born 1969) is an English writer and artist.

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Tony O'Neill

Tony O'Neill (born 1978, Blackburn, Lancashire) is a New York-based author.

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Travis Jeppesen

Travis Jeppesen is an American writer and artist.

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3:AM Magazine

3:AM Magazine is a literary magazine, which was set up as 3ammagazine.com in April 2000 and is edited from Paris.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offbeat_generation

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