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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you care about a subject, there's a podcast for it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have deliberately arranged my life so that I see pictures of cute animals on the Internet every day.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal.
- Close Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Telling a story about someone has enormous power. People forget a headline. They remember a story.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to judge a piece of criticism by how smart I find the argument. This, I know,, is not how everyone does it.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- American Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the story, that women writers of those eras were doing much worth remembering.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
When James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' turned out to be largely bunk, critics everywhere secretly rejoiced. They knew it, they said.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.
- Condemned
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- Nov 07, 2020