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A simpler and obvious explanation for critical complacency; 90% of critics are also crap/crud.
by ebbv 9y ago
A simpler and obvious explanation for critical complacency; 90% of critics are also crap/crud.
- stochastic_monk 9y agoOr at least, the vast majority of published reviews are. Recently, I was reading a review of Samuel Beckett [Nobel Prize in Literature 1969], from the NYTimes from 1958 [0], and at first I was shocked by how much higher the quality was than what one might read in the Times today. Turns out that the author was a Stephen Spender, CBE, [1], a poet who was knighted for his contributions. It's not when or where something is written so much as by whom. You are exactly right that it's determined by who the critic is. [0]: http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/reviews/beckett-unnamable.html http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/reviews/beckett-unnama... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Spender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Spender