A lot of people produce podcasts in which they simply ramble on for hours about themselves and their lives. There is something very poignant about the volume of human desire to be heard out there in the Wild West of… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
There is an unfortunate side effect of being a person of few words: Sometimes people will assume you are less intelligent than you are. — Michelle Dean Copy Share
Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language. — Michelle Dean Copy Share
The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art. — Michelle Dean Copy Share
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… — Michelle Dean Copy Share
Hollywood versions of watershed moments in American history are generally high-minded shlock. 'JFK,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt,' even 'Lincoln': all of these boast… — Michelle Dean Copy Share
I still think, most of the time, when people called shows like 'The Sopranos' or 'Deadwood' 'art' that they were correct. — Michelle Dean Copy Share
Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness. — Michelle Dean Copy Share
There are many things to like about 'Mr. Robot,' the most ephemeral and yet memorable of them being the opening credits. — Michelle Dean Copy Share
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… — Michelle Dean Copy Share
Research can be a boon to a novelist - there are more things in heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of in a… — Michelle Dean Copy Share
In an age where television is viewed as the best medium to 'tell stories,' narrative often stands in for substance on would-be prestige shows. — Michelle Dean Copy Share
Feminists are disappointed in each other a lot, a natural side effect of being involved in a movement, which naturally implies that progress toward… — Michelle Dean Copy Share
Hillbilly stereotypes have always made it easier for middle-class whites to presume that racism is the exclusive province of 'that kind' of person. — Michelle Dean Copy Share
Book awards - in America, at least - are not like the Oscars. Awards are not cumulative, and in the case of something like… — Michelle Dean Copy Share
