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" We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media. "
Michelle Dean
Men
Civilization
Social Media
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" 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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" 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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" The podcast revolution has taught us that women's voices aren't just pleasurable to listen to, they are essential. "
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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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" When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse. "
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" Since the era of 'Sherlock Holmes,' private detectives had long been able to influence cases on their own. But the online detective, who had no sort of professional training or even long practice, is a purely modern phenomenon. The Internet changed everything by letting anyone become a self-appointed 'expert' on a case. "
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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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" 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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" 'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s. "
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Kind
Early
" The Festival of Books is indeed a well-oiled machine, one which leaves most of the other literary festivals in America, including vaunted Brooklyn's, in the dust. "
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Festivals
America
" There's no good way to be the center of a media maelstrom you did not choose for yourself. "
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Choose
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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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Book
Care
" 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
" 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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Daily
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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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Writing
Story
Process
" 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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You
Television
Cool
" I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder. "
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Romance
Romantic
Age
" 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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Crime
Details
" Novelists do not swing on the same pendulums as critics. "
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" Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara. "
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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 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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" 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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" Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness. "
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Alone
" Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language. "
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Social Media
Language
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" Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll off his back, that the negative publicity was still publicity. "
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Off
Back
Media
" Mass market paperback thrillers are a dime a dozen. The trick is to find something that actually sticks to the ribs. "
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" The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore. "
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