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Apologies if I have rudely not responded to your email yet. It's a large club. The cinetrix runs a great exchange from film columnist Alan Smithee about which movie adaptations are better than the books they're based on. Dave Schwartz on Scandanavian writer Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy. The Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site. The Slate article about bizarre theorizing that Stephin Merritt is a racist is, well, bizarre. A bit of a misanthrope*? Maybe. (And apparently with good reason.) A racist? Seems like a Plastic Man-caliber stretch. (Via Ed.) Birnbaum v. David Mitchell. Disney and the Erotic Art of...
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Laura Miller explains why she didn't vote in the NYT "Most Distinguished Novel" survey: My point in objecting was not just some namby-pamby reluctance to make any relative evaluation about literature, because that really is an important thing that critics do: declare that some books are better than others. I have no problem doing that, but I hate imposing a rigidly, atomistic structure on it. Ultimately, novels are so diverse that once they attain a certain level of quality, they really can't be meaningfully ranked against each other. Some people I discussed this with had a hard time understanding that...
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