Unfortunately, I have to report that downtown New York does indeed have a cohesive avant-garde. Here is an insular community, committed to the repulsion of the status quo, that has produced at least one new literary mode.
It’s unfortunate, though, for two reasons: first, because its vision of the future takes a strong reactionary bent; second, because it is, of course, the culture surrounding Dimes Square, and I'm reluctant to add to the reams of hacky Dimes Square clickbait. To date, the majority of writing surrounding the scene has fallen into two camps: uncritical encomium for new blood in the stagnant waters of Manhattan’s art world, or uncritical rejection of the scene tout court. Both approaches are lazy, both ultimately fodder for its continued influence.
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