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Why Should Some Books Be “Guilty Pleasures” And Others Considered Like Spinach?

WORDS Posted: August 13, 2014 1:40 pm

Rebecca Mead: “The distinction partakes of a debased cultural Puritanism, which insists that the only fun to be had with a book is the frivolous kind, or that it’s necessarily a pleasure to read something accessible and easy … [or] that literary works, especially those not written last year, are placed at the opposite pole to fun.”

WORDS Published: 08.13.14

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 08.13.14

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