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The title of this post is also the title of the first chapter of David Denby’s new book Snark: It’s mean, It’s personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation.
Here are a couple excerpts from the first chapter:
This is an essay about a strain of nasty, knowing abuse spreading like pinkeye through the national conversation — a [...]
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Throughout history, the great works of literature (whether well-received or not) have sparked equally great works of literary criticism. Alex Ross’ brilliant history of music in the twentieth century has sparked criticism of the highest order – most lately by the great British tenor Ian Bostridge, writing in the Times Literary Supplement (think the English [...]
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I’m sure that many of you may have seen this elsewhere, but for those of you who have not, here is the video:
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Alex Ross, classical music critic for the New Yorker, and critically-acclaimed author of the critically-acclaimed book The Rest is Noise, and bloggie-nominated-finalist blogger, will appear on the Colbert Report tonight, Tuesday January 29, 2008 (guest subject to change, would be the required caveat). Go figure!
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It appears that some dodgy fact-finding on the part of critic/writer Norman Lebrecht may have gotten him into trouble – his publisher has withdrawn all unsold copies (in the United Kingdom) of his most recent book on classical music and will have them destroyed. All as a result of a lawsuit brought by the [...]
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