Was the ULA Good Enough?

We never claimed that our writers were the end point of American literature—but that they represented a new direction for writing, building on the authentic populist foundation of traditional American literature, from its glory days when it was truly powerful and relevant on a world scale.

We need a literature which expresses not just the narrow voice of a privileged few, but, with plain words, the authentic voice of the entire civilization in all its conflicts and variety. A new literature which embraces and portrays America’s hopes, pain, gross appetites, and mad strivings.