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Can there be a happier fate than being a victim of your own success? In the arts, perhaps yes. Overnight popularity doesn’t often last, let …
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Originally in: Salon.com
America's premier novelist of ideas has long anticipated a world in which spectacle and terror would achieve totemic significance in our everyday lives.
It’s been said often enough that every age gets the art it deserves. In a memorable editorial lynching of Oliver Stone, Maureen Dowd once castigated …
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