Gladwell did steal the secret to writing sizzling histories from Foucault. Like many attracted to beauty in my youth, and power in middle age, my reading habits have shifted. I used to read almost nothing but novels and poems; now I read books that establish the “rules” for doing things and the “secrets” nobody but the author (and the people he interviewed) know exist. As a regular contributor to Splice Today, I sometimes review this type of McJournalism when I can skim through it fast enough. Recently, I began to blurrily scan the pages of Kevin Roose’s new book […]
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