Also, check out a clip from Louis C.K.'s interview on a panel of Conan O'Brien writers from around the same time.
He says he still doesn't precisely understand why so many good writers emerged from the same place at the same time, "although there must have been at least some political element expressing itself in the culture.
Maybe the writer was from the same town, had the same ethnic background, or, shared the same birthday — anything to create a sense of affinity.
Before becoming the critically acclaimed force behind some of the greatest indie music of the last decade, Sufjan Stevens, aspiring writer, graduated from the same Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program I began last fall.
If the writers all come from the same backgrounds, you are going to get the same sorts of characters.
One of the greatest things about TechCrunch is that they celebrate and reward each writer's own voice rather than forcing every writer to sing from the same hymn-sheet.
When we can read page-turning work, learn about history, and drink in great writing, that seems like a good deal to me -- especially if we can pull away from ghettoizing writers at the same time.
My initial understanding of feminism and racism came from these two writers in the same weeks and months.
It's wonderful to have two writers in the same house writing from very different perspectives.
In the recent past, it was felt that the answer was to employ journalists from a more diverse background but this does not necessarily add to diversity if those black and asian writers, for example, come from the same privileged socio-economic background.
