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" If you care about a subject, there's a podcast for it. "
Michelle Dean
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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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" I still think, most of the time, when people called shows like 'The Sopranos' or 'Deadwood' 'art' that they were correct. "
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" Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity. "
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" Hillbilly stereotypes have always made it easier for middle-class whites to presume that racism is the exclusive province of 'that kind' of person. "
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" 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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" The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore. "
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" The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal. "
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" Research can be a boon to a novelist - there are more things in heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of in a single writer's philosophy - or it can become a hindrance, a thick layer of algae that weighs down the storytelling. "
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" Indeed, there has never been any sort of organised movement of people who take their cats into the outdoors. Of course, the navy often took them on ships, but there they performed a function, mousing for the officers. "
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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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" A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they're currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire. "
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" I have deliberately arranged my life so that I see pictures of cute animals on the Internet every day. "
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Internet
Life
" Mary Roach's curiosity is notoriously infectious. "
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Curiosity
Infectious
" When James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' turned out to be largely bunk, critics everywhere secretly rejoiced. They knew it, they said. "
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Little
Said
Pieces
" 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. "
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Critic
Close
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" 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
" 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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Know
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" 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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Memorable
Opening
Robot
" Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life. "
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Quality
Life
Even
" 'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s. "
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Millennials
Kind
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" The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness. "
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Election
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" My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that vague and characteristically Canadian form of Protestantism known as the United Church. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" A lot of people produce podcasts in which they simply ramble on for hours about themselves and their lives. There is something very poignant about the volume of human desire to be heard out there in the Wild West of podcasts. "
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" There is an unfortunate side effect of being a person of few words: Sometimes people will assume you are less intelligent than you are. "
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" 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. "
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