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No Judgement - On Being Critical

English · Paperback / Softback

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I heard this crazy story, and I want you to know. It is the age of internet gossip; of social networks, repackaged ideas and rating everything out of five stars. Mega-famous celebrities respond with fury to critics who publish less-than-rapturous reviews of their work (and then delete their tweets); CEOs talk about reclaiming ''the power of vulnerability''; and in the world of fiction, writers eschew actually making things up in favour of ''always just talking about themselves''. In this blistering, irreverent and very funny first book of non-fiction, Lauren Oyler takes on the bizarre particularities of our present moment in a series of interconnected essays about literature, the attention economy, gossip, the role of criticism and her own relentless, teeth-grinding anxiety.

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Authors LAUREN OYLER, Lauren Oyler
Publisher Virago Press Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.06.2025
 
EAN 9780349016481
ISBN 978-0-349-01648-1
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 126 mm x 196 mm x 36 mm
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays

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