David Denby

A TRIUMPANT MARCHE

Leave a Comment / Books & Authors / By stefan

Hear, hear, Stephen Marche. Writing in The National Post, Marche takes a swipe at David Denby, the Snark-hunter: David Denby, a New Yorker film critic, has just released an assault on the bad behaviour of our times, Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal and It’s Ruining Our Conversation. It is one of those thin polemical books …

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SNARK ATTACK

Leave a Comment / Books & Authors / By stefan

Three cheers for Walter Kirn–the novelist, critic, and my friend and former colleague from Spy-–who slaps around David Denby in today’s New York Times Book Review in his review of Denby’s new book Snark: Denby pronounces Tom Wolfe and Maureen Dowd masters of “snarky mimesis” and settles on two epicenters of snark located on opposite …

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