Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Hating Your Audience

Does liking Edgar Allan Poe's stuff make me a sucker, the butt (among many others) of a 150-year practical joke? At great length and in very entertaining fashion, Jill Lepore addresses this question.

Honestly, I don't think so. An authorly disdain for the medium doesn't make the product any worse. Or maybe I just don't like the idea of being mocked by a dead man.

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