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- 001sky 14y agoMichiko Kakutani (角谷 美智子 Kakutani Michiko?, born January 9, 1955) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the New York Times. ... Salman Rushdie has called her "a weird woman who seems to feel the need to alternately praise and spank".[9] In a June 2005 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, author Norman Mailer criticized Kakutani as a "one-woman kamikaze" who "disdains white male authors" and deliberately "bring[s] out your review two weeks in advance of publication. She trashes it just to hurt sales and embarrass the author." Mailer also said that The New York Times editors were "terrified" of Kakutani, and "can't fire her" because she's "a token", "an Asiatic, a feminist".[10] Jonathan Franzen called her “the stupidest person in New York”[11] and an "international embarrassment".[12] Moreover, in recent years, Kakutani's particularly harsh reviews of books by famous authors (for example, John Updike's The Widows of Eastwick[13]) are followed by usually milder or decidedly positive reviews of the same titles by other Times reviewers.[14] -- From Wikipedia.