Shut up and eat!

Article Abstract:

M.F.K. Fisher's innovations in food writing have been seriously overextended. Including recipes cannot make a skimpy novel significant, nor do recipes lend credibility to cultural generalizations found in ethnic cookbooks. Inflated emotional superlatives in restaurant reviews are also abhorrent.

Appreciation, Food, Portrayals, Humor and anecdotes, Food in literature, Restaurant critics, Fisher, M.F.K., Greene, Gael, Smith, Jeff (American cartoonist)

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Poetry and its discontents

Article Abstract:

The lack of an audience for poetry is attributed to a division between the ironic and ecstatic modes that has been in place since the 1970s. Much poetry is about ego. Poetry should be written in a way that makes the point more easily understood rather than ramblings.

Analysis, Influence, Poetry, Poets

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