So: Twin Shadow’s George Lewis, Jr. wrote a novel; Pitchfork has a selection of quotes, and a link to a longer excerpt on the website of Eliot Aronow. (Cryogenic shelters and terraforming appear to play a part.)

A day later, Pitchfork reported that head Cloud Nothings guy Dylan Baldi had decided to be the Dale Peck to Lewis’s Rick Moody.  We can now anticipate the moment eighteen months from now when, say, Iceage and The Beets stage their own version of the “literary niceness” debate.

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