>Book is by young male author with an MFA >Main character

>Main character is a college student or young hipster artist or yuppie
>Prose is apathetic or uses present tense

my novel in progress is guilty of both of these. is that such a big deal, though?

What makes mustaches and bicycles hipster; what makes bowties, glasses, and a pipe vector?

>>9440704
Desire to adopt "classiness" or "gentleman" aura solely through superficial visual cues. Identity/culture as commodity. See also: craft brews, music on vinyl

the difference is none of them have whole sections about the form and literary tradition of greentext

>>9440681
>Protagonist is painstakingly written in the masculine ideal, to console the author's feelings of castration by the postmodern academy

>>9440738
You're kinda dim.

>>9440681
To be fair, they wouldn't have been like that without the MFA. Writing in a voice that isn't part of your ethno-cultural-generational-geographical bubble is a big nono in academia, particularly if your specific bubble is the one described in OP. They were probably scolded and shamed when they tried to come up with original thoughts.

>>9440687
>my novel in progress is guilty of both of these. is that such a big deal, though?

No. As long as its good.

>>9440738
>Desire to adopt "classiness" or "gentleman" aura solely through superficial visual cues. Identity/culture as commodity. See also: craft brews, music on vinyl

Literally almost everyone who has existed has done this to a certain extent though.