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Brutalism is a literary movement formed in 2006 by three writers from the north of England (Tony O'Neill, Adelle Stripe and Ben Myers). The Brutalists are affiliated with the Offbeat generation, a loose association of like-minded writers working across different styles but united by their opposition to a mainstream publishing industry driven by marketing departments. The movement may have been the first literary movement to be launched via the social networking site Myspace. Their debut publication Nowhere Fast was released as a chapbook on Captains of Industry Press in 2007.