The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Would we even recognize an Oliver Stone production if it didn't kick up the usual fuss? — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I don't care about the bare fact that anyone liked or didn't like a book or movie; they can only interest me… — Michelle Dean Book Copy Share Image
We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media. — Michelle Dean Civilization Copy Share Image
Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language. — Michelle Dean Language Copy Share Image
A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays… — Michelle Dean Attention Copy Share Image
Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be… — Michelle Dean Books Copy Share Image
Dan Brown and the 'Da Vinci Code' have been around well over a decade now, and to be perfectly honest, both he… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
There is something a little vulgar about writing a novel that is too close to the present, too concerned with current events,… — Michelle Dean Books Copy Share Image
When Paul Beatty's 'The Sellout' was first published in America in 2015, it was a small release. It got a rave review… — Michelle Dean America Copy Share Image
Most academic historians accept that historians' own circumstances demand that they tell the story in a particular way, of course. While people… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Research can be a boon to a novelist - there are more things in heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of… — Michelle Dean Earth Copy Share Image
Since the era of 'Sherlock Holmes,' private detectives had long been able to influence cases on their own. But the online detective,… — Michelle Dean Influence Copy Share Image
Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion that to cue up an episode is to do… — Michelle Dean Aura Copy Share Image
The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Indeed, there has never been any sort of organised movement of people who take their cats into the outdoors. Of course, the… — Michelle Dean Cats Copy Share Image
Many people, I've noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers… — Michelle Dean Beach Copy Share Image
Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Most people do not pay attention to the publisher's imprint on a given book. — Michelle Dean Attention Copy Share Image
There's no good way to be the center of a media maelstrom you did not choose for yourself. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Articulateness is not the only way that intelligence manifests itself. — Michelle Dean Intelligence Copy Share Image
The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore. — Michelle Dean Culture Copy Share Image
The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art. — Michelle Dean Art Copy Share Image
Few reporters get to do what Kelly McEvers does in every episode of 'Embedded': go deep into a story and tease out… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I could be imagining it, but I believe myself to have exchanged sly, understanding nods with other people I see attending movies… — Michelle Dean Alone Copy Share Image
After living in the United States for over 10 years, here is what I have learned about the Fourth of July: it… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Vacation reading is not a new concept. Ever since the 19th century, when novels were considered relatively sinful indulgences, leisure and fiction-reading… — Michelle Dean Books Copy Share Image
I tend to judge a piece of criticism by how smart I find the argument. This, I know,, is not how everyone… — Michelle Dean Argument Copy Share Image
'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder. — Michelle Dean Age Copy Share Image
