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Sometime between the early and mid-1990s, the prevailing media wisdom concerning twentysomethings did an about-face. They went from being labeled as underachieving slackers to can-do dot com titans.

Writing in The American Prospect, Nicholas Confessore weaves an analysis of Dave Eggers critically-acclaimed memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, with an exploration of the 90s cultural milieu that informs its sensibility. This period, says Confessore, produced a bumper crop of small-circulation journals, started by people in their twenties, that were equally attuned to the cultural moment, and dedicated to challenging the media stereotypes that defined, and redefined, their generation.