My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that… — Michelle Dean Canadian Copy Share Image
For a long time, it seemed as if podcasting was a male realm, but no longer. Sure, there are lots of men… — Michelle Dean Long Copy Share Image
The Festival of Books is indeed a well-oiled machine, one which leaves most of the other literary festivals in America, including vaunted… — Michelle Dean America Copy Share Image
When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse. — Michelle Dean Aggressive Copy Share Image
The 'beach read' has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact,… — Michelle Dean Always Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does… — Michelle Dean American Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness. — Michelle Dean About Copy Share Image
Most people do not pay attention to the publisher's imprint on a given book. — Michelle Dean Attention 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
Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and… — Michelle Dean Beauty Copy Share Image
I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come… — Michelle Dean Argument 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
Dan Brown and the 'Da Vinci Code' have been around well over a decade now, and to be perfectly honest, both he… — Michelle Dean Around 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
Push the envelope too far as a female artist, and you may only earn an ocean of ink expressing concern for your… — Michelle Dean Art Copy Share Image
A presidential candidate changing churches is hardly unusual. Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Rand Paul have all aligned themselves with different faiths… — Michelle Dean Candidate Copy Share Image
A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they're currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in… — Michelle Dean America Copy Share Image
People spend their entire lives trying to construct something to grab onto: a family, a home, a business. Rarely does anyone seem… — Michelle Dean Business Copy Share Image
Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to… — Michelle Dean Answers 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
Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best. — Michelle Dean Been Copy Share Image
Television was not cool among the young people of my era, the last years of the '90s and the early '00s. It… — Michelle Dean Cool Copy Share Image
The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it. — Michelle Dean Even 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 Deep Copy Share Image
