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Michelle Dean
American Journalist
Born: 1983
About Become Been Book People You
Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s. Michelle Dean
People Become Kind Directed Modern Millennials Early Early 20s
There has long been an argument in New York about what, exactly, the purpose of book awards ought to be. One model sees them as a celebration of the unquestioned best and brightest, a triumphal parade for marquee authors who have published in a given year. Michelle Dean
Best Book Long Argument Year Ought Marquee Parade Exactly About Unquestioned Given Sees Purpose New Been Celebration Model York Authors New York Them Who Awards Published Brightest
While 'Twilight''s popularity was undeniable among both the teenagers they were aimed at and middle-aged women who flocked to the series in droves, Meyer has drawn her share of criticism for her writing. Some feminist critics assailed what they saw as Bella's mooning over her vampire lover. Michelle Dean
Women Writing Criticism Lover Teenagers Saw Drawn Vampire Critics Some Both Share Undeniable Over Feminist Were Middle-Aged Middle-Aged Women While Who Series Popularity Among Her
Summer is always a tricky time to recommend new literary fiction. The big releases do not hit until fall. Michelle Dean
Time Big Fall Summer Release Recommend Tricky New Until Always Hit Fiction Literary Literary Fiction
It is no secret, of course, that people have strong feelings about fat - feelings that seem only to have been inflamed by the sense, in western countries, that there is an obesity crisis afoot. Concerns about health have mutated into a kind of panic attending any mention of fat people at all. Michelle Dean
Health People Strong Feelings Sense Panic Secret Crisis Kind Strong Feelings Obesity About Seem Only Mention No Secret Attending Countries Concerns Course Been Western Western Countries Any Inflamed Fat
I have deliberately arranged my life so that I see pictures of cute animals on the Internet every day. Michelle Dean
Life Day Every Day Internet My Life Animals Cute Every See Deliberately Pictures Arranged
Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide from us why a critic is actually thinking what they're thinking. Michelle Dean
Hide Criticism Argument Thinking Though Critic Bad Tend Shame Cliches Just Us Rote Why Actually
When James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' turned out to be largely bunk, critics everywhere secretly rejoiced. They knew it, they said. Michelle Dean
Everywhere Secretly Out Critics Knew Pieces Said Bunk James Little Turned Largely Million
The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness. Michelle Dean
Remember Election First Feeling Kind About First Thing The First Thing Thing
When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse. Michelle Dean
Woman Aggressive She Praised Condemned Coarse
Perhaps crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another. Michelle Dean
Crisis Purpose Perhaps Forces Another Commonality
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. Michelle Dean
Time Woman Women Made Men Long Long Time Seemed Longer Sure Doing Male Lot Lots Women Are Hits Form Biggest Realm Serial Phenomenon
Few reporters get to do what Kelly McEvers does in every episode of 'Embedded': go deep into a story and tease out what is really happening. Michelle Dean
Few Every Out Embedded Does Go Get Reporters Happening Story Really Episode Deep Tease Kelly
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. Michelle Dean
Good Daily Book First Too Release Small Weekly Rave Beatty New Got Review Sellout Times America York New York New York Times Paul Measure Large Published
The 'World Wide Web', as people quaintly called the Internet in 1996, was more or less made up of text. There was no YouTube. There was no Facebook. There was, however, Usenet, a loose and difficult-to-navigate assortment of message boards. Michelle Dean
Facebook People World Internet Made YouTube World Wide Web Web More More Or Less Message Loose However Text Up Boards Less Wide
After living in the United States for over 10 years, here is what I have learned about the Fourth of July: it is more of a barbecuing holiday than anything else. Michelle Dean
Living Else States About More Over Learned Years July Than After Anything Anything Else Holiday United United States Here Fourth
I've come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase 'female friendship,' because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships. Michelle Dean
Friendship Relationships Signal Dread Phrase Tends Come Because Female Feminist Even
Many people, I've noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers are beach reads; others thought all romances are. Some people thought only mass market paperbacks are eligible for beach read standards. Michelle Dean
People Thought Some People Others Market Distinguishing Prone Some Beach Only Thrillers Mass Mass Market Genre Read Reads Friends Romances Polling Noticed Standards Many Eligible
Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life. Michelle Dean
Life Good You Strong Petty Elsewhere Characterized Plot Facts Because Reads Handle Manage Often Literary Ordinary Ordinary Life Transport Who Novelists Away Vacation
Television was not cool among the young people of my era, the last years of the '90s and the early '00s. It was not just old people who'd castigate you for watching anything but public television. We young people scoffed at each other about it. Michelle Dean
You People Old Young Other Television About Era Years Just Anything Public Young People Old People Cool Each Among Early Last Watching
I still think, most of the time, when people called shows like 'The Sopranos' or 'Deadwood' 'art' that they were correct. Michelle Dean
Art Time People Think Correct Like Most Sopranos Deadwood Still Were The Sopranos Shows
Donald Trump is a man who likes to think he has few equals. Michelle Dean
Man Few Think He Likes Equals Trump Donald Donald Trump Who
Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll off his back, that the negative publicity was still publicity. Michelle Dean
Negative Back Has-Been Someone Since Learned Still Been His Trump Off Mocked Mockery Roll Fiercely Media Publicity
A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they're currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire. Michelle Dean
History Winner Latest Kind Scene Through Particular Most Still Intellectual Mobile Person America Currently Literary Loves Note Certain Professionals Desire Pulitzer
Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language. Michelle Dean
Language Social Media Suited Ways Some Poems Ideally Because Pack Little Social Meaning Much Media
My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that vague and characteristically Canadian form of Protestantism known as the United Church. Michelle Dean
Church Parents Religious Only Only Child Particularly Known Canadian Child Form United Raised Vague
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