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Born of a Bitter Bland Seed
How This Post Originally Appeared (December 3, 2003): So who is Laura Miller anyway? Here’s an audio interview* of Miller extolling the wonders of the Internet back in 1999. But, beyond her nasal...
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Nigel Beale points to some startlingly reactionary remarks from Salon’s “Internet Killed the Critical Star” article. Now that I’ve read this “discussion” a second time, Nigel is right. Why would anyone...
View ArticleEat the Rich
One reads Laura Miller’s review of Mark Bittman’s Food Matters with unwavering chagrin. Here is a review of a clearly ideological book, a review written by a humorless bourgeois reviewer who boasts...
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Dwight Macdonald: A Case Study for Great Responsibility
“Macdonald had given the hint that the clue to discovery was not in the substance of one’s idea, but in what was learned from the style of one’s attack.” – Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night...
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Laura Miller’s Black Helicopters
Last Wednesday, Laura Miller offered another typically incoherent tirade, perhaps demonstrating some closet desire to become the Maureen Dowd of the literary world. Her column attempted to stir up...
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The Lies, Libel, and Deceit of Molly McArdle: Rebuttal to a Hatchet Job, a...
“In 1970 my mother said to me, ‘I would have been glad to testify to get back at those bastards for what they did…But I suspected, from my own experiences working within the Hollywood system, that...
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