Mark Weiss wrote:
> Congratulations on getting some attention in the big world. What someone
> wrote about the quality of litcrit in the Australian press goes double for
> the US. Hard to imagine the NYTimes taking on anything as interesting.
I find this an amazing statement and don't think it's true at all. What
many Australian writers (on this list and more generally) complain of is
such a profound lack of critical culture as to preclude even a _vocabulary_
of critique, while the U.S. seems if anything overendowed with it, maybe as
a result of the diffusion of theory from the academy into a wide range of
critical venues from the NY TIMES, say, to RAIN TAXI (say).
Candice
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