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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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Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language.
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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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There's no good way to be the center of a media maelstrom you did not choose for yourself.
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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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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 plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.
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For a long time, it seemed as if podcasting was a male realm, but no longer. Sure, there are lots of men doing podcasts, but women are voicing a lot of the form's biggest hits. 'Serial,' the podcast that made podcasts a phenomenon, was narrated by a woman.
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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.
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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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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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I have deliberately arranged my life so that I see pictures of cute animals on the Internet every day.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Summer is always a tricky time to recommend new literary fiction. The big releases do not hit until fall.
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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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When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse.
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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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The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.
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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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I've come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase 'female friendship,' because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships.
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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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The children of the 1980s were the last before a lot of things changed. We were the last generation not to have cell phones, not to have video games, not to have parents who worried if we strayed from the yard.
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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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I could be imagining it, but I believe myself to have exchanged sly, understanding nods with other people I see attending movies alone on Christmas Day.
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There has long been an argument in New York about what, exactly, the purpose of book awards ought to be. One model sees them as a celebration of the unquestioned best and brightest, a triumphal parade for marquee authors who have published in a given year.
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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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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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Most people do not pay attention to the publisher's imprint on a given book.
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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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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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