He doesn't -sound- too terrible, but I don't do NPR and never read his stuff. Why is he terrible?
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he's part of the New Sincerity writing movement that includes such hacks as Mike Daisey
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...I've never heard of this and guess I'll have to do some research.
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This is probably why I have not encountered this "New Sincerity" stuff. That and my devotion to genre fiction.
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This old essay kind of captures my issues with Sedaris' writing style and the idea of being "anti-irony"https://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977 …
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @banalexistence
The funny thing is this piece cites David Foster Wallace's cruise essay as a piece of great writing the New Sincerity never could've created but DFW helped *start* that movement with his E Unibus Pluram essay about TV ruining culture
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well "on smarm" is basically about how positivity is weaponized to create a veneer of niceness, and that cruise essay, while not especially deep, is really depressing and not remotely positive
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I don't think the "snark/smarm" thing is coherent I think the whole point in the end is that "smarmy" people are hypocrites and they're just as snarky and negative as everyone else about things they don't consider sacred, and the "everything is sacred" position is a strawman
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But by the same token the "snark" side is defending something they think IS sacred and immediately bristle when it's under attack The Gawker alums all got sanctimonious as fuck when people pointed out they could've just not put up Hulk Hogan's sex tape to avoid getting sued
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And that defending putting up Hulk Hogan's sex tape as part of some kind of general mission of uncompromising devotion to the truth was ridiculous, mockworthy and quite smarmy
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