Masscult and midcultDwight Macdonald
Masscult and midcult
by Dwight Macdonald · first published 2011
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…Exhalation by Ted Chiang Silver, Sword & Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story by Maria Arana The World As I Found It by Bruce Duffy Alice And Bob Meet The Wall Of Fire edited by Thomas Lin Masscult and Midcult by Dwight Macdonald Big Bang by David Bowman White Noise by Don DeLillo The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann A House for Mr. Biwas by V. S. Naipaul A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again…
on “Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?” ↗…both.) All media tend to fall in quality with size. See Dwight MacDonald's 1953 classic "A Theory of Mass Culture" (https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2008/ESB032/um/5136660/MacDon...). (Also apparently "Masscult and Midcult", which I've only just run across and have not yet read: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/macdonald.pdf)
on “Things that I think will be important in the next decade” ↗