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" The real discovery of having your consciousness raised was never that you'd be handed tools; it was the discovery that the only real leverage you get in life is yourself. "
Michelle Dean
You
Yourself
Tools
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" I've come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase 'female friendship,' because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships. "
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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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" 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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" It's become a cliche to say that a piece of drama is about 'the nature of truth.' But 'Rectify' so openly plays with the slippery nature of memory that the label directly applies. "
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" I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come to a clear thumbs up or thumbs down. But I need the disagreement to have some kind of line I can follow on the map. I like following an interesting mind along it. "
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" When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse. "
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" The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore. "
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" When Paul Beatty's 'The Sellout' was first published in America in 2015, it was a small release. It got a rave review in the daily 'New York Times' and one in the weekly 'New York Times Book Review,' too, for good measure. But by and large, it was not a conversation-generating book. "
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" Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion that to cue up an episode is to do something highbrow and personally enriching, whether it's a history lecture broadcast from a university or an amateur talk show recorded in someone's garage. "
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" The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art. "
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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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" 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
" 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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" Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language. "
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" Donald Trump is a man who likes to think he has few equals. "
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" We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the rote learning of a grammatical rule or mathematical concept. But the habits of mind art cultivates are important. "
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" The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it. "
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Stranger
Things
Simple
" 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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Kind
Winner
America
" 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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" 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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" The 'beach read' has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact, the term only emerged in the 1990s, usually in book trade publications such as 'Booklist' and 'Publisher's Weekly.' "
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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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" The 'World Wide Web', as people quaintly called the Internet in 1996, was more or less made up of text. There was no YouTube. There was no Facebook. There was, however, Usenet, a loose and difficult-to-navigate assortment of message boards. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Her
Vampire
Women
" I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder. "
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" 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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" Feminists are disappointed in each other a lot, a natural side effect of being involved in a movement, which naturally implies that progress toward the ultimate goal is the only measure of success and that setbacks are always disasters. "
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