So yes I'm on board with the essay everyone is sharing today, but ... And a huge but here .... http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/41314/on-pandering.html …
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... I grew up in the place she spends the first six grafs needlessly shitting on, and this is in so many ways wrongpic.twitter.com/QgTi13A6Q1
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She spent four years in Lewisburg and learned absolutely nothing about its role in the greater regionpic.twitter.com/PBJhw6LSnY
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All of this is very beside the point of her essay, which is why it bothers me so much: why spend so much time on an unnecessary aside?
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And ESPECIALLY why spend so much time on it when you're getting it so willfully wrong?
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Anyway yes read the essay for the many fine points it makes, but please do skip the first section http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/41314/on-pandering.html …
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One more thing: Philip Roth went to Bucknell, and the school is obsessed with him, and that HAS to be informing herepic.twitter.com/5lj2TlIu3E
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I worked summers and breaks stocking Bucknell's student bookstore, and seriously, the amount of Roth the push on kids is unmatched elsewhere
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So maybe that's why she hates Lewisburg. Because they don't let you forget that Philip Roth is the one famous person who ever stopped by.
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