Maybe some creativity will finally come from Gen Y

I hope I like their stuff. I get tired waiting for Dave Eggers to write new books.

One the blogosphere's leading lights is Tao Lin, a young writer seen as something like the figurehead of young, internet-spawned American fiction. He has accrued a number of acolytes, followers and copyists who could collectively be branded the children of Generation X. Or if we're being harsh, the offspring of the characters Bret Easton Ellis identified back in the mid 80s in Less Than Zero.