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" I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder. "
Michelle Dean
Romance
Romantic
Age
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" Among journalists, there is a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads.' This can result in some serious hustling - and some serious sloppiness - whenever a crime occurs. The public's longing to see and hear salacious details is, basically, endless. "
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" Articulateness is not the only way that intelligence manifests itself. "
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" After living in the United States for over 10 years, here is what I have learned about the Fourth of July: it is more of a barbecuing holiday than anything else. "
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" Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide from us why a critic is actually thinking what they're thinking. "
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" Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness. "
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" Prestige podcasts, like prestige television shows, tend to have an audience that believes itself literate, well-informed, and reasonable. Listening to podcasts, in this model, is a form of virtue. "
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" In an age where television is viewed as the best medium to 'tell stories,' narrative often stands in for substance on would-be prestige shows. "
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" Summer is always a tricky time to recommend new literary fiction. The big releases do not hit until fall. "
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" The podcast revolution has taught us that women's voices aren't just pleasurable to listen to, they are essential. "
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Us
" Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as many answers as the people they seek to depict. "
Michelle Dean
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Maps
" It is no secret, of course, that people have strong feelings about fat - feelings that seem only to have been inflamed by the sense, in western countries, that there is an obesity crisis afoot. Concerns about health have mutated into a kind of panic attending any mention of fat people at all. "
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People
Feelings
Health
" Perhaps crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another. "
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Commonality
Crisis
" There is something a little vulgar about writing a novel that is too close to the present, too concerned with current events, too eager to critique technological advancements. "
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Writing
Technological
Events
" Hollywood versions of watershed moments in American history are generally high-minded shlock. 'JFK,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt,' even 'Lincoln': all of these boast excellent performances in scripts that are ultimately very conventional, even conservative. "
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People
History
Even
" Writing a novel about feminism can be a thankless task. "
Michelle Dean
Feminism
Thankless
Task
" Few reporters get to do what Kelly McEvers does in every episode of 'Embedded': go deep into a story and tease out what is really happening. "
Michelle Dean
Out
Happening
Go
" People spend their entire lives trying to construct something to grab onto: a family, a home, a business. Rarely does anyone seem to manage to get much ground under their feet. "
Michelle Dean
Family
Feet
Home
" Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language. "
Michelle Dean
Social Media
Language
Meaning
" Vacation reading is not a new concept. Ever since the 19th century, when novels were considered relatively sinful indulgences, leisure and fiction-reading have been closely associated. "
Michelle Dean
Been
Leisure
New
" A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays close attention to the thing she's brought to evaluate. "
Michelle Dean
Critic
Close
Attention
" Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity. "
Michelle Dean
Humanity
Nothing
Beautiful
" Book awards - in America, at least - are not like the Oscars. Awards are not cumulative, and in the case of something like the Pulitzers, the jurors often have another goal in mind: sales. They know that the Pulitzer stamp can sell a book. "
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Mind
Goal
America
" There's no good way to be the center of a media maelstrom you did not choose for yourself. "
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Yourself
Choose
Good
" Dan Brown and the 'Da Vinci Code' have been around well over a decade now, and to be perfectly honest, both he and it have become a joke. "
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Honest
Over
Now
" There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a certain plodding sameness of tone and subject matter that plagues a lot of contemporary American fiction. "
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Nothing
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American
" Donald Trump is a man who likes to think he has few equals. "
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Likes
Man
Think
" There are many things to like about 'Mr. Robot,' the most ephemeral and yet memorable of them being the opening credits. "
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Opening
Robot
" I don't care about the bare fact that anyone liked or didn't like a book or movie; they can only interest me in that bare fact by writing an intelligent review. "
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Care
" Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life. "
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You
Vacation
Facts
" Television became defensible - and, frankly, worshipped - because the shows started to be so carefully structured, so attentive to language, and so visually interesting that they suddenly caught people's eye. "
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