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So fuck the people who try to tell you what a "real" writer is. And at the Smart Set, here is my column about Anne Roiphe's Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason , writing guides, MFA programs, self-publishing, and the roaring noise of 275,000 books published every year in America alone. Consider it the flip side of the happy, night clubs in los angeles optimistic piece I wrote for NPR about how books will never die.
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In fact, it's proof of literature's strength and lasting value that a 19th century writer like Jane Austen can still speak to the contemporary love lives of her readers, and that a book like the Diary of Anne Frank can still cause a ruckus among protective parents. That fight over comic books? The same arguments were made about Shakespeare, because, it was suggested, Elizabethan drama wasn't real literature. (Early debates also routinely happened over novels, ballads and books written by women.) People have been trying to ban books for ages, from the 18th century's Fanny Hill and the court cases against Lady Chatterley's Lover and Ulysses, all the way to Harry Potter. "[Literature's] greatness... is enhanced rather than undercut" by these challenges, Garber argues. There will always be stubborn, scandalized readers trying to define what literature is, but the greats will endure. Shakespeare's plays started out as low class trash, and now they're considered the high point of the world's cultural output.
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If you never got to see the 1990 film version of Captain America -- starring J. D. Salinger's son -- don't worry! It's being re-released. (Check out the trailer, at the end of the article. It is magical .)
He moved to Sydney around 2003 and began writing spy novels, one of which, "Fatal Weakness," is about espionage and corruption involving China and the U.S. It has been published on the Internet in China. Mr. Yang also contributes frequently to about 10 blogs, including some that run on Chinese portals that receive millions of hits daily.
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So every year, a dictionary announces it's adding a few new slang terms to their next edition, and every year, members of the weird subculture of linguistic purity whip themselves into a bizarre literary moral panic about what it means for our delicate little language. This year, it's the OED, which is adding words like OMG , LOL , and muffin top . Ian Crouch offers some much-needed perspective on the manufactured controversy, reminding us along the way that OMG was first used in 1917, so Jesu