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Against Lee Siegel's New Yorker Essay Against Negative Book Reviews | New »

This seems both undeniably true as a description of reality, and also deeply misguided as a philosophy.
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First, he argues, that unlike in the Cold War era, "everyone [shares] the same literary-intellectual-commercial space"
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I fail to see how this constitutes an irony, but Siegel does have a point about a broader cultural change.
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And since no one can read every book, it's worth having critics around to be honest about which ones are worth our time, and to help explain their larger importance, even if doing so makes those critics occasionally sound mean.
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Siegel should take a deep breath, re-read this paragraph, and ask himself if he really wants to live in a world without negative cultural criticism.
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And why is there necessarily a connection between being synthetic and being upbeat? No answers here. Siegel then ends his piece as follows:
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makes a slightly broader argument
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Moreover, this is an especially odd argument for Siegel to be making when one considers that he is a recognizable critic who has "authority," however absurd the concept may be.
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