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What do we do about the terrible people in our lives? Mostly we keep loving them.

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

August 18, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

I wished someone would invent an online calculator – the user would enter the name of an artist, whereupon the calculator would assess the heinousness of the crime versus the greatness of the art and spit out a verdict. A calculator is laughable, unthinkable. Yet our moral sense must be made to come into balance with our art-love. I wanted there to be a universal balance, a universal answer. ― Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma CBR16Bingo: Bananas We are living in an age where […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Annie Hall, artists, cbr16bingo, Claire Dederer, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, Joni Mitchell, michael jackson, Miles Davis, musicians, Pablo Picasso, Popular Culture, Richard Wagner, Roman Polanski, Virginia Woolf, Woody Allen

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:69 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Annie Hall, artists, cbr16bingo, Claire Dederer, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, Joni Mitchell, michael jackson, Miles Davis, musicians, Pablo Picasso, Popular Culture, Richard Wagner, Roman Polanski, Virginia Woolf, Woody Allen ·
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