A surge in the popularity of present tense also accompanied literary modernism a century ago. I'm a little disappointed that the author didn't draw any comparis

A surge in the popularity of present tense also accompanied literary modernism a century ago. I'm a little disappointed that the author didn't draw any comparisons or contrasts. At the least, the title suggests that this parallel was in the author's head. "Make it now" is a riff on Ezra Pound's maxim "make it new".