I’m not really sure what the difference is (though the differences in their reception is interesting) between most of Odd Future’s stuff and Emma Donoghue’s Room.

People are aware that there was a critically-acclaimed, twice-reviewed [quite positively] in the New York Times novel based around a kidnap/rape fantasy, right? And that, according to its Wikipedia page,

The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize regional prize (Caribbean and Canada); was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2010 and was shortlisted for the 2010 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General’s Awards.

I’m certainly not saying that difficult/terrifying/violating art is in itself a good thing, but there’s a lot of it around. Not all of it is made by a group of young black men. Not all of it is liked by young white men. But it all takes some thinking about, by anyone who wants to.

P.S.,
Franzen’s Freedom finally knocked Room out of the #ToB.