mercredi 20 mai 2015

Rant: Time To Stop Being Snobbish About Book Genres

CORRECTS NAME - American writer, Jonathan Franzen, left, shows his award, the Budapest Grand Prix, which he received from President of the Hungarian Publishers and Booksellers Association, MKKE, Andras Sandor Kocsis, during the opening of the 22nd Budapest International Book Festival on stage of the Millenaris Theatre in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, April 23, 2015. (Tamas Kovacs/MTI via AP)

“I’m tired of cultural pompousness passing as a form of intelligence and moral superiority, whether we’re talking about television, book, movie or music preferences. I record “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” while my boyfriend records “Nova”—does that make him a better person? Is that really what we want to pass down to the next generation—a way of one-upping ourselves over something that should be entertaining?”



source ArtsJournal http://ift.tt/1Kl6mmf

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