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Tuesday, November 4, 2003

We agree to disagree...

with Dale Peck. Steve Almond says: "Nobody's objecting to critics spanking books they don't like. That's part of the job. But when the tone of these assaults overshadows—or blots out—aesthetic objections, something is terribly wrong. The best critics write reviews because love literature, not because they hate authors." Exactly.

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