My Roaring Twenties

The “Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers” is a delightful literary anthology of memoir-style essays by American writers under 30 is the fruit of an Internet contest organized by Kellogg and Quint, editorial assistants at Random House. Its acutely self-aware observers and philosophers live experience intensely. Many compose about work, be it evening shifts at Wendy's, assisting the U.S. military in Kuwait or playing with infuriating fellow band members in New York City. Whether confessing they are only just starting to see their own parents as people or labouring to balance graduate study and parenthood, the essayists combine morbid irony ...