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The Washington Post All That Jazz Isnt All That Great got a better rebuttal than it deserved: washingtonpost/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/08/11/all-what-jazz-or-how-to-declare-something-dead-without-listening-to-it/ But I remain troubled by the trend of culture writers reassuring people theyre correct to ignore stuff that takes work. I say this as someone who believes art can and should entertain. But if being entertained is all you want, there are so many other, better options! This 2011 piece, on what a drag it is to eat your cultural vegetables, is a good example of this completely toxic line of thinking: nytimes/2011/05/01/magazine/mag-01Riff-t.html?pagewanted=all
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 20:50:37 +0000

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