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Where’s the literature of this lost generation?

This caught my eye in the NYT today, because it sounded like a preamble to a review of a a host of books from left-behind, trodden-on, excluded authors:

The United States grew more quickly than Europe in recent decades, but many of the gains flowed to a small slice of the population. Median household income, adjusted for inflation, actually fell from 2000 to 2007 — and has fallen more since the financial crisis began in 2007.

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