Didn't I read an Oliver Sacks article about you, the guy who couldn't tell people with dissimilar faces and disparate heights apart?

Oh, so they hate black people not because they're black, but because they're "bigoted."

Joan gets one taste of coke and decides to be a producer.

He'll fit in fine. The locals in Wichita are all terrible drivers.

You might be B12 deficient.

Saying that a beloved 70-year-old film that you don't like doesn't "stand the test of time" doesn't make any sense. That it has appealed to viewers for decades obviously contradicts that statement as a fact, and unless you're nearly as old as the film is you don't have the perspective to talk about how well it has…

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, but god help that god man's wife if she doesn't know her place.

The sad truth is that if you want to become a black psychiatrist who encourages his patients to kill, you have to work twice as hard as a white psychiatrist who encourages his patients to kill.

So, Franklin grows up to be a Hannibal Lector-esque psychiatrist. I certainly didn't see that coming.

Sounds like somebody remembered his Charlemagne!

In my day we had some memes, boy…

Comprehensive, no, probably not. Nuanced? Why not?

So, songs about class don't have to understand issues of class. Got it.

I think there's a point to be made that Lorde doesn't understand issues of race and class and it's presumptuous of her to comment on a culture that she doesn't understand from a country she doesn't live in. This interview somewhat illuminates that, but it's obfuscated a bit by the interviewee's own issues regarding…

The reason you're not supposed to talk religion at a dinner party is because it's deeply personal and even if two people share the same religion their understandings of their own faith can be wildly different. These religious movies are so bad because they don't allow for realistic personal faith. Individuality makes…

They're only doing the streaming service because they want people to buy products. Separating the two would defeat the purpose of having the streaming service.

Intention doesn't mean much if it doesn't show in the work. An artist whose intentions don't come across at all is a poor artist and hardly worth anyone's time. Certain schools of criticism are unconcerned with the artist's intentions, but intentionalists in the end are most concerned with how intentions manifest in…

The impression that I got from the article is that neither the MFA or NYC sides approached the topic from the "bleak state" point of view and that that was Sonia's main criticism.

This article does a lot of assuming. It takes for granted that MFAs buff all the originality out of writers and that publishers are neglecting truly original work. But what is the actual evidence of that?

Perhaps, but my point is that FSoG is not an example that suggests this. It started as fan fiction of Twilight, so it had to ride on the coattails of an already successful commodity. I don't think there exists a current infrastructure that would allow a random piece of literary fiction to gain a sizable readership.…