Generation A

“And so I think that even though she’s not here to see it, I believe that she would be pleased with the opportunity for another generation, a new generation, to take part in it.”

Wilkinson points out that Didion was an outlier among her generation, a conservative both in her aesthetic taste and her politics.

Into each generation, a Slayer is born.

Beyoncé — oh, you thought I meant the vice president? — is without doubt the most thrilling live entertainer of her generation: a one-woman power plant of vocal and physical talent capable of lighting a place up and burning it down in just a few minutes flat.

Altman, meanwhile, wrote that parting ways is “very sad” and called Sutskever “one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend.”