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Michelle Dean Quotes

American - Journalist | 1983 -

The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the story, that women writers of those eras were doing much worth remembering.

Women Forward Story American Doing

When James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' turned out to be largely bunk, critics everywhere secretly rejoiced. They knew it, they said.

Said Critics Out Little Pieces Knew

The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.

Remember Feeling Election Kind First

When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse.

Woman Aggressive She Praised Coarse

The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art.

Good Art Perspective Diversity Those

Perhaps crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another.

Purpose Crisis Forces Perhaps

For a long time, it seemed as if podcasting was a male realm, but no longer. Sure, there are lots of men doing podcasts, but women are voicing a lot of the form's biggest hits. 'Serial,' the podcast that made podcasts a phenomenon, was narrated by a woman.

Women Time Men Woman Doing Long

The podcast revolution has taught us that women's voices aren't just pleasurable to listen to, they are essential.

Women Revolution Listen Us Just

'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s.

People Early Kind Become Millennials

Dan Brown and the 'Da Vinci Code' have been around well over a decade now, and to be perfectly honest, both he and it have become a joke.

Now Become Decade Over Joke Honest

When Paul Beatty's 'The Sellout' was first published in America in 2015, it was a small release. It got a rave review in the daily 'New York Times' and one in the weekly 'New York Times Book Review,' too, for good measure. But by and large, it was not a conversation-generating book.

Good Daily New York Small Book New

There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a certain plodding sameness of tone and subject matter that plagues a lot of contemporary American fiction.

Potential American Wrong Nothing

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