Break, Blow, Burn

A dude (I assume) that likes Paglia? Most liberal guys that I know "aren't familiar with her work", i.e. they're scared shitless of her loudmouth and crazy antics. Too bad that I missed her NPR interview last night--did she insult NPR or the host? (she usually does something like that).

i don't know if anyone heard paglia on npr last night, but she talks like she had a pot of coffee and a couple lines before she went on. i find her insanely fast talking both endearing and annoying, but when she talks about popular culture and politics (both of which she knows little about) it's like she's thinking so fast there are huge gaps in her reasoning. she does literary criticism like nobody's business, however. she makes gloria steinam look like andrea dworkin!

seriously, though, she takes post-modern or whatever criticism to task, which needed to be done like 10 or 15 years ago when Sexual Personae came out. now pomo stuff has fallen out of fashion yet paglia continues to act as if it is plaguing us still.

her new book is great, though. as a literary critic who can open up a poem to make a reader appreciate its depth and beauty, she's one of the best.