Prozac or Pro-sack?

In most cases, depression is not a mental illness. It's a sane response to a crazy world.

Gary Greenberg
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The Mass-Culture Conundrum

"Mass culture is a machine for showing desire."

Roland Barthes

... "It's also a machine for expressing resentment, a frustration of desire."

David Denby
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On Writing: Kitsch

Conventional novelists sometimes produce what Harold Rosemberg called fifty years ago "kitsch," the following of established rules at a time when artists are calling those rules into question.

James Wood
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Oh, Academia!

Dig an academic slit trench so deep and so narrow that there is room only for you.

Reported by Robert R. Provine
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