“Novelists,’ said Ivo, ‘are to the nineties what cooks were to the eighties, hairdressers to the seventies and pop-stars to the sixties… Merely, you know, an expression of the Zeitgeist, Nobody actually reads novels any more, but it’s a fashionable thing to be a novelist – as long as you don’t entertain people of course. I sometimes think,’ said Ivo, his eyes like industrial diamonds, ‘that my sole virtue is, I’m the only person in London who has no intention of writing any kind of novel, ever.” WritingBooksLondonFashionableNovelsZeitgeist90sThe Nineties Book:A Vicious Circle Source: A Vicious Circle
“1999 was a good year; pre-9/11, pre-Bush, bangin’ economy, the send-off to a pretty amazing decade and century.” 20th CenturyMillennium19991990sTurn Of The CenturyThe Nineties Book:In Limbo Source: In Limbo