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   From: acwheele@optonline.net   
      
   Mike Schilling  wrote:   
      
   > Andrew Wheeler wrote:   
   >   
   > >   
   > > Oprah's seal of approval generally depresses the perceived literary   
   > > worth of a book, by adding the stink of the unwashed hordes. See   
   > > Jonathan Franzen for the full flowering of this midnset.   
   > >   
   > > This is because Oprah's recommendations are followed by   
   > > middle-class,   
   > > middled-aged women who generally read for pleasure, and we all know   
   > > that such bourgeois people can't be trusted to know *real*   
   > > literature.   
   >   
   > At least we've found one author who writes for art and cares nothing   
   > for money.  What a nitwit!   
      
   You mean Franzen? No, he wanted money -- he wrote professionally. He   
   just wanted to be able to specify his audience, which doesn't work --   
   the audience chooses the writer, not vice versa.   
      
   --   
   Andrew Wheeler   
      
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