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" Novelists do not swing on the same pendulums as critics. "
Michelle Dean
Novelists
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" While 'Twilight''s popularity was undeniable among both the teenagers they were aimed at and middle-aged women who flocked to the series in droves, Meyer has drawn her share of criticism for her writing. Some feminist critics assailed what they saw as Bella's mooning over her vampire lover. "
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" Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language. "
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" Television was not cool among the young people of my era, the last years of the '90s and the early '00s. It was not just old people who'd castigate you for watching anything but public television. We young people scoffed at each other about it. "
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" The phenomenon of Instagram poets - who are also, to be fair, Tumblr poets and Pinterest poets - has been one of the more surprising side-effects of the selfie age. "
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" Most academic historians accept that historians' own circumstances demand that they tell the story in a particular way, of course. While people wring their hands about 'revisionist' historians; on some level, the correction and amplification of various parts of the past is not 'revisionism' as it is simply the process of any historical writing. "
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" We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media. "
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" I tend to judge a piece of criticism by how smart I find the argument. This, I know,, is not how everyone does it. "
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