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This book takes as its starting point the fight between Oprah and Franzen, so, through no real fault of its own, it is now a mighty dated attack on mass culture and those who defend it. Of course, it's an intervention, not a lasting book. So that's okay. But it is funny to read someone defending Franzen as the great hope of the avant-garde. Lehmann summarizes some of the better American cultural critics (e.g., MacDonald, Greenberg), summarizes some of the horrible guff that people write in defen...
Simultaneously dated and relevant. 3.75-4.0 Stars?