Michelle Dean Quotes

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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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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 plot of ‘Stranger Things’ is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.

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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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Mary Roach’s curiosity is notoriously infectious.

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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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Few reporters get to do what Kelly McEvers does in every episode of ‘Embedded‘: go deep into a story and tease out what is really happening.

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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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Would we even recognize an Oliver Stone production if it didn’t kick up the usual fuss?

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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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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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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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The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.

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Many people, I’ve noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers are beach reads; others thought all romances are. Some people thought only mass market paperbacks are eligible for beach read standards.

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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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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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Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best.

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The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.

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Donald Trump is a man who likes to think he has few equals.

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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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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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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.

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There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be creatures of young-adult or commercial fiction.

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I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder.

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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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Summer is always a tricky time to recommend new literary fiction. The big releases do not hit until fall.

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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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I have deliberately arranged my life so that I see pictures of cute animals on the Internet every day.

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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 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 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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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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When a woman shouts, she isn’t usually praised for it. She’s condemned as aggressive and coarse.

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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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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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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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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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Perhaps crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another.

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A presidential candidate changing churches is hardly unusual. Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Rand Paul have all aligned themselves with different faiths throughout their lives.

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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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