Showing posts with label Nicholson Baker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nicholson Baker. Show all posts

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Weathering the Work of Change: Marginalization in Popular Culture and Poetry




My cousin Charlie Finch, writer and Senior Critic for Artnet Worldwide, sent some words of advice in response to my recent post about Avatar: "I think one needs to tread very carefully when dealing with expensive cultural phenomena such as "Avatar" or Susan Boyle. These are cultural anvils dropped from on high with the apparent touch of a feather that are designed to manipuate our emotions and separate us from our wallets and our identities, so "caveat emptor.""