Nerd Fight!
Dwight Garner, senior editor of New York Times Book Review and author of their earnestly titled blog, Paper Cuts, has this to say about This American Life:
Admirers talk about how, blinded by show???s minor-chord epiphanies, they???ve pulled over to the side of the road to listen to a story???s conclusion. Detractors think This American Life is the most pretentious and self-absorbed mewling they???ve ever heard.
I tend toward the latter view; there have been times when I???d have gladly totaled my car just to make This American Life go away.
Try not to alienate your audience, Dwight. Who would read a blog about books but fans of This American Life?
Related: Kasper Hauser???s parody of This American Life is right on point.
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