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June 22, 2012 by Tim Riley

Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky

Ongoing list of admirable critics with inexplicable opinions:

Garry Wills thinks Oliver Stone ranks with Dostoevsky, even recommends half of his first novel…

Greil Marcus has a pavlovian negative reaction to Lucinda Williams (“As great an emotional fraud as Destiny’s Child — wins the prize over them as the most mannered singer in pop music because she’s been fooling people with it longer”)…

Ellen Willis loved that lame excuse for feminist payback, Thelma and Louise…

And in her forthcoming Glittering Images, Camille Paglia pronounces George Lucas God-On-A-Stick…

 

Filed Under: main Tagged With: Camille Paglia, Ellen Willis, Garry Wills, Greil Marcus, Lucinda Williams

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